Authorities of the University of Jos have declared Friday as a lecture-free day in honour of students, who lost their lives and those injured in the Tuesday’s bomb blasts in Jos.
A statement by the Deputy Registrar, Information and Communication, Mr. Steve Otowo, stated that the period would also be used to conduct a headcount of all the students in the university to ascertain the number of those involved in the unfortunate incident..
He said the Vice Chancellor had commiserated with the families of the victims of the bomb blast.
Meanwhile, the authorities are still searching for the corpses of five of the seven students of Medical Laboratory Science department, who were caught up in the blast.
Acting President of the Students Union Government, Williams Lar, told our correspondent in an interview that out of the five students, only the corpses of two – Michael Ogbole and Francisca Nwafor, had been identified and their parents notified.
He added that the bodies of Wungak Monday, Millicent Yusuf, Doris Gebunem, Vivian Chiamka Obilo and Lydia Komolafe, had not been found.
He said another student, who had graduated from the university and undergoing clearance, Joy Mako, was currently on admission at Our Lady of Apostle Hospital, with Jimlong Dayol of Architecture Department and Jumai Audu, a worker in the Consultancy Department of UNIJOS.
Lar added that another students of Pharmacy Department, identified as at Tessy, had also not been seen since the incident happened.
He said, ” By law, we can only declare the two students as dead and five others missing. But that is just to satisfy the requirements of the law because a lot of people were burnt beyond recognition and since these students moved in a group, we can simply conclude that they are dead.”
Lar said the parents of all the affected students had been notified and they had arrived Jos to join in the search.
A friend of the seven students described them as front benchers, who were serious with their studies.
“They are God fearing and first class materials and had always moved together. So when we saw the bodies of two of them, we can conclude that the rest were burnt beyond recognition, says the friend, who identified herself simply as Dinchi.
“They were all brilliant students , Mike is the class pastor while Dolapo was the assistant class rep. During lectures, they all sit in the front row and they read together. The school and the entire department of Medical Laboratory Science will miss them. They didn’t deserve to die in that way.” Click to signup for FREE news updates, latest information and hottest gists everyday
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