A temporary suspension of operations has been implemented at the Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University’s Uli campus due to recent attacks by armed hoodlums operating in the Ihiala Local Government Area of Anambra State.
The state-owned institution’s location near the Uli village, which is part of the Ihiala LGA, a border town in Anambra, has been linked to a high number of unidentified gunmen activity.
According to reports, the attackers arrived from nearby neighbourhoods and carried out “hit and run” operations in the area, causing widespread panic among the facility’s employees.
An anonymous senior member of the university’s faculty told reporters, “Due to increased activities of these hoodlums, academic and non-academic staff of the university are always in a panic mood when coming to work.”
“The gunmen shot sporadically at the popular Total Filling Station along the Onitsha-Owerri Expressway, on Tuesday, thereby scaring the people out of the road in the guise of enforcing sit-at-home, which they claimed would last from Monday to Thursday this week.
“As a result of this, all scheduled meetings and lectures at the Uli campus this week have been cancelled by the various heads of departments and units. The authorities at the institution’s administrative headquarters at Igbariam, Anambra East Local Government Area have been briefed on the development.”