Gunmen invade UI postgraduate hostel again, injure students with machetes

Armed men on Sunday invaded a post-graduate hall of the University of Ibadan (UI) exactly a month after a similar incident in the institution, injuring students with machetes and carted away their belongings.

The invaders suspected to be armed robbers were said to have stormed the Abdulsalami Abubakar Hall of the institution comprising of four blocks being occupied by both the male and female postgraduate students, and carted away valuables, leaving two male students injured.

The UI Vice-Chancellor of the university, Professor Idowu Olayinka, who had confirmed the attack to the media, said the incident took place in the female wing of the postgraduate hostel around 2:00 a.m.

According to the VC, two students were injured as the robbers tried to escape after students who spotted them raised the alarm, adding that policemen had visited the scene of the crime and had commenced an investigation into the matter.

It was said that about seven men armed with machetes gained entrance into the hostel through a window passage and raided the first and second floors of the hostel.

The notorious robbers, it was said overpowered a security man on patrol who was tied up while two male students who raised the alarm and decided to leave their block to follow up the situation of things were attacked by the robbers.

One was said have sustained a head injury after he was hit with a machete and the other received a machete cut on his hand.”

It will be recalled that two students of the Obafemi Awolowo Hall were injured exactly a month ago, following a robbery incident on the postgraduate students’ hostel of the institution by some gunmen.

Then, as gathered, the assailants also suspected to be armed robbers stormed the finalists’ block of the hostel and after over an hour operation, carted away the students’ belongings, and it was said that a student who claimed not to have a laptop was cut with a knife.