Students of the school have taken to the highway to protest the death of their colleague and also demand the repair of the damaged road.
Chidinma Ogbonna, a 400 level student of the Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike, Abia State, was on Sunday crushed to death by a truck.According to reports, the young lady popularly known as Queen was crushed by a truck on Sunday evening along Umuahia-Ikot Ekpene Road. According to them, Queen is the third student of the school that has been killed by an accident occurring as a result of the bad road.
”Another user, Emmanuel Obo Nwakaji wrote: “The current state of Umudike-Ikot Ekpene road, a death trap“The current state of the Umudika road is so heartbreaking, the government should step into that road, yes, if not for any other reason but for the lives of students that are the major users of that road.“That road is a Federal road and I know that the House of Reps member representing that axis can just focus on that and achieve it, even if it becomes his only achievement then it will be fine.
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