A female student of the University of Benin (UNIBEN), Juliana Martin Akpaette, has been hospitalized after she was allegedly sh*t by a police officer in Benin city, Edo state.
It was gathered that the unfortunate incident occurred at the office of the Nigerian Petroleum Development Company (NPDC), in Ogba, on October 28, 2021.
According to a source, “The Niger Delta Student in Tertiary institutions were supposed to have a workshop on the new Petroluem Industrial Act (PIA) on October 27 and 28, at the NPDC office in Ogba, but NPDC canceled it.
Juliana and her colleagues had gone to the NPDC office for a meeting to resolve the contending issues between the management of the NPDC and the students shortlisted for the workshop with the view of forseeing a common ground.
Unfortunately, the students were barred from entry for inexplicable reasons. Due to heavy rain fall, they sort shelter under the security post of the NPDC chanting solidarity song in an orderly and peaceful manner.
Suddenly, a team of Police officers invited by the NPDC Management and led by D.S.P Odagboyi Emmanuel arrived the scene, and in an ho*tile and aggr*ssive manner started firing gunsh*ts directly at the students. In the process Juliana was h*t by the b*llet released from the gunsh*t of DSP Odagboyi Emmanuel.
It been more than a month now and NPDC has failed to respond or even reach out to the poor innocent girl that almost lost her life at NPDC Ogba. The young girl have been abandoned and she is currently going through physical and mental tr*uma.”
