By Ayodele Oni
The Vice-Chancellor of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, UNN, Prof Simon Ortuanya, has revealed that consumption of alcohol might have led to the death of some final year students of the University on Thursday.
This is just as he announced a three-day mourning period for the deceased students.
The vice chancelor announced this while confirming the news of death of some students celebrating a sign-out party.
Ortuanya confirmed the death of four students and graduates of the institution in the tragedy, while briefing journalists.
Final year students of the institution’s Pharmacy Department had held a signing out party at a lodge in the Hilltop area of Nsukka, Enugu State.
According to him, he received a distress call at about 10pm on Wednesday, November 11, that some of its students and graduates had been involved in an incident leading to six persons being hospitalised, some in critical condition.
He said the university’s security personnel immediately moved to the scene at Praise Lodge, located in the Hilltop community, outside the university’s Nsukka campus.
“On arriving at the scene, we discovered that there was a house party in a lodge called Praise Lodge outside the university, precisely around the Hilltop community in the periphery of University of Nigeria Nsukka Campus.
“It was discovered that four persons died immediately. Six other persons are presently in hospital, as they were rushed to hospitals, and they are receiving treatment at the moment,” the Vice-Chancellor said.
According to him, preliminary findings revealed that alleged alcohol abuse and drug-related substances were the cause of the tragic deaths.
The vice chancellor used the opportunity to reiterate a subsisting ban on alcohol use on across its campuses, including Nsukka, Enugu and Ituku-Ozalla.
He equally announced a three-day mourning for the dead.
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