Police probe NANS factions’ violent conflict in Abuja

The Federal Capital Territory Police Command stated on Tuesday that it had launched a probe right into a violent conflict between two factions of the Nationwide Affiliation of Nigerian College students in Abuja.

The 2 NANS factions, in a trending video on X, previously Twitter, engaged in a bloody conflict that left one severely injured within the FCT.

Each factions had been led by the duo of Pedro Obi from Delta State College and Comrade Fortunate Emonefe from Faculty of Schooling Warri, Delta State.

The 2 factions had emerged from a controversial conference held final December.

The election, which was riddled with disaster, led to a massacre leaving many college students injured and rushed to the Nationwide Hospital in Abuja.

Since this occasion, each factions declared themselves winners and had been working individually.

Nonetheless, on Tuesday, in a video sighted by The PUNCH on X, a bus branded with Obi’s photograph was seen to have been vandalised. Hoodlums armed with cutlasses had been additionally seen hacking a person suspected to be Obi’s ally.

When contacted for a response, Obi accused Emonefe of being the mastermind of the lethal assault.

He additionally famous that safety operatives had been already concerned within the matter and investigations had additionally commenced on the matter.

His phrases, “Sure, they got here for me however with God’s safety I wasn’t there after they got here. They got here to my residence in Abuja to wreak havoc and so they hacked one in every of my individuals and he’s actually and severely injured. As we communicate, he’s within the hospital, he has misplaced quite a lot of blood and for the time being we will solely pray to God for his restoration.

“However for many who did this, they’re the one ones who can inform the rationale for this assault and we will likely be completely satisfied if they’ll come out to inform us the rationale for his or her act. These are thugs despatched by Fortunate and people who did this aren’t hidden, the video out there confirmed their faces and I do know that the safety businesses know what to do.”

Emonefe in an interview insisted that each one individuals within the video had been cultists and never NANS members.

He maintained that Nigerian college students would by no means act in such a violent method, saying the Obi faction had been all cultists fomenting hassle in every single place they went.

“All of the individuals within the video aren’t Nigerian college students; Nigerian college students is not going to get entangled in such acts. We’re respectable, we don’t do such. The individuals within the video are a bunch of cultists led by one Pedro Obi. The NANS members are effectively behaved, enlightened and we’re future leaders. We can’t be concerned in such an act. Pedro Chibuzor Obi is parading himself to be NANS, he’s a member of a cult group they’re those having the fracas and never NANS.

“I seen them at a perform I went to final week and so they attacked me, he’s all the time attacking and we can’t be violent like them. Nigerian college students have chosen their president and we’ve got been concerned in all actions of NANS. He’s impersonating my workplace. Obi just isn’t a Nigerian scholar; he’s the individual concerned in cult exercise.”

In the meantime, the FCT Police Public Relations Officer, SP Josephine Adeh, confirmed the event on Tuesday following an inquiry by our correspondent.

Reacting to the event, the FCT PPRO,  Adeh, stated the police had been guaranteeing that there was no disruption of peace being loved by residents of the territory whereas promising to speak additional improvement.

Adeh famous, “The FCT police command is conscious of the information making rounds in regards to the current assaults and counterattacks launched by the factional NANS leaders in opposition to each other within the Federal Capital Territory and due to this fact, needs to state that the police command has commenced an investigation into the matter.

“The command is guaranteeing no disruption of peace being loved by residents is allowed. Additional improvement will likely be communicated.”