IMT students’ election claims life of security officer

Election into the executive offices of the department of Science Laboratory Technology, Institute of Management and Technology, IMT, Enugu ended in a fracas on Tuesday, claiming the life of a security officer of the institution who was allegedly beaten death.

The officer, identified as Festus Eze was among those deployed to maintain peace and monitor the departmental election.

A student of the department told us that trouble started when some students who felt the election was not going in their favour came in to disrupt it.

“The late security officer tried to stop them from disrupting the election; in the ensuing crisis one of the students reached for a concrete pole and hit the officer on the head.

“He fainted immediately and people started running, some tried to revive him by pouring water on him, he was later rushed to a hospital”, the student disclosed under anonymity.

It was gathered that, Eze died few hours after he was rushed to an unnamed hospital.

Our correspondent who visited the institution observed that academic activities were paralyzed in most of the departments as a result of the incident.

When contacted, the Rector of the Enugu State owned polytechnic, Prof. Mike Iloeje confirmed the security officer’s death.

He said: “the development is indeed a sad one; we have lodged a formal report with the police. We are expecting them to investigate the incident and take necessary action”.