Our Correspondent|28 October 2017
The Special Adviser Student Affairs and Youth Mobilization earlier this week assured protesting select students from the Cross River State University of Technology, CRUTECH, who came to Governor's Office to protest over the demise of one of their students and course mate who was electrocuted to death due to PHCN cable on Tuesday 24th October 2017.
The protest was led by Tola, Prince Harmony and Ayiri, Francis Utsu all of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, CRUTECH. According to Harmony, 'We are here to protest the constant loss of lives in Calabar due to frequent electrocution. In April, we lost some of our students and now, we have lost an 18-year-old student whose prospects have been cut short,'
Continuing he said: 'We blame the state governor because for a long time, there is no water in the city and when fire fighters were called upon to intervene, they said they had no water. If there was water in the state, perhaps, our colleague would not have died.'
While reacting, SA Abuo said that, 'When the last incident happened in April, the governor gave instruction that all structures under high tension wire be demolished. We don’t want this kind of thing to continue. But I can assure you that the governor, through SEMA, will assist victims of the electrocution.'
The name of the student who lost his life due to the PHCN electric cable is Inyang David David with Registration Number 16/MEN/167. The incident occurred at Adak Uko by Inyang Street, Calabar South LGA.
The students appealed for welfare package for the mother of the boy and for his burial as well as calling on the state and federal fire service, PHCN and federal/state government to take measures to prevent future occurance and for prompt emergency response from Fire Service.
Sources have it that Inyang David, a 100 level student of Mechanical Engineering of the Cross River State University of Technology (CRUTECH) and a nursing mother were killed on the said Tuesday when a high-tension cable fell on the roof of their building at 14 Adak Uko Street in Calabar on Monday night.
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