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The student simply identified as Adaeze is said to be a
200-level undergraduate of Accounting.
Adaeze’s lifeless body was found on Friday, in her
off-campus residence in Aluu, a community near the university.
The cause of her death could not be ascertained as of the
time of filing this report on Monday.
This came barely two weeks after the decomposing body of a
300-level undergraduate of Biochemistry, Justina Otuene, allegedly killed by
her ex-lover identified as Damian Okoligwe was found in the latter’s residence
along NTA Road, Ozuoba in Obio/Akpor LGA.
Okoligwe, a 400-level student of Petrochemical Engineering
also in UNIPORT has since been arrested by the police.
Speaking on the latest incident, the Dean of Student
Affairs, UNIPORT, Chima Wokocha, said the lifeless body of the student was
found in her off-campus residence and brought to a health facility in the
school by some of her neighbours.
Wokocha said the management of the institution and the
police had visited the scene of the incident, adding that the parents of the
late female undergraduate had also been notified of the incident.
He stated, “Her body was brought to the Chief Lulu-Brigss
Health Centre by people who live around her in her lodge.
“She didn’t die in the university hostel. She died in her
off-campus residence in Aluu and the scene of the crime was visited by the
management of the university, including my humble self.
“The police were there with us also. We acknowledge the fact
that she had taken a substance and passed out because there was a bottle of a
substance that was found by her side.
“The parents have come there and I think they are making
arrangements to take the body.”
Contacted, the spokesperson for the state police command,
Grace Iringe-Koko, said she was driving to the office and promised to give
feedback to our correspondent afterwards.
Iringe-Koko had yet to do so as of the time of filing this
report on Monday afternoon.