Students of Benue State University (BSU), on Monday, staged a protest over the shooting of the President of National Union of Benue State Students (NUBESS), Comrade Tyonor Smith at the weekend by unknown gunmen in Makurdi.

Our correspondent reports that the union leader was shot at the university gate in Makurdi metropolis while leaving the school premises.

The protesting students, in the morning, blocked the three gates of the university, denying people entrance and exit as they demanded that the gun-wounded leader be taken to Abuja or abroad for better treatment.

It was gathered that the injured president was receiving treatment at the Benue State University Teaching Hospital before the protesters went into the street, asking for his urgent transfer to a better health facility.

But the Head of Information at BSU, Tse Vanger, told newsmen that the Vice Chancellor of the University, Prof. Msugh Kembe, had addressed the protesting students and dispersed them as at the time of filing this report. Kembe was also said to have allayed the fears of the students as he disclosed that the injured leader had been transferred to a health facility in Abuja.

The Police Public Relation Officer, DSP Catherine Anene, confirmed the incident, saying that the NUBESS president was shot by unknown gunmen at the gate of the institution’s College of Health Sciences.

Anene said that preliminary investigation showed that the student leader was involved in campus politics and that the students’ union election was around the corner.

She added that further investigations would unravel those who shot the students’ leader, stressing that no arrest had yet been made. (Daily Trust)