Student Unionism has been proscribed at the Rivers state Polytechnic (RIVPOLY), Bori, following the last weeks violent student protest at the institution.
Reports says the ban was announced by the Special Adviser to Governor Rotimi Amaechi on Student Affairs, Osika Tamuno.
Tamuno said that “Government is now sounding it loud and clear that all student related activities in the Rivers state Polytechnic be suspended until further notice,”
He lamented the theft and destruction of property worth millions of naira by the students.
“The two ICT centres provided by TETFUND and ETF were utterly destroyed, vandalized and looted.
"Computers and other important property were also carted away. They destroyed anything they cannot carry.
Tamuno also dismissed rumors that a student of the institution died in Police custody..
“I have also established contact with the student that was rumoured had died. The said student is not dead. "The police actually released him. I have talked with the student.
Tamuno said the ban on all students' union activities will remain until the perpetrators are brought to book.
“Government condemn the act in its totality and we will not rest until the perpetrators are brought to book."
A violent protest, fueled by news of the arrest and purported 'death' of student, had spiralled out of control, leaving the institution's Chief security Officer and a number of students critically injured last Thursday.
Looting followed until the police were called in. Student Pulse gathered that the CSO is still receiving treatment
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