High-tension wire still at UNILAG hostel • The severed cable…on Monday Three weeks after the electrocution of a 300- Level Accounting student of the University of Lagos (UNILAG), Oluchi Anekwe, the high- tension cable, which killed the students at the front of New Hall, is yet to be removed from the spot. The development is generating concern among students, who queried the value the school management attached to human lives. The students said it was insensitive for the school to keep the wire at the spot. When CAMPUSLIFE visited the spot on Monday, the perimeter fence of the hostel was barricaded with safety tape. The pole to which the high-tension wire is attached did not have restriction tape, while the wire remained on the spot. Although the wire was said to have been de- energise, students felt uncomfortable with the cable still left on the spot. A 300-Level Law student, who gave her name as Bukola, said the development showed the management did not care about the safety of students. “Perhaps, they are waiting for another tragedy to occur,” she said. Another student, Olanike Ibiyemi, said: “If the school management said the cables are not serving the school, what is the logic of leaving the severed wire on the hostel’s entrance? Do they think another tragedy cannot happen because there is no power flow in wire? The management needs to be alive with its responsibility.” At the time of this report, the wire remained on the spot. Share
Three weeks after the electrocution of a 300-
Level Accounting student of the University of
Lagos (UNILAG), Oluchi Anekwe, the high-
tension cable, which killed the students at
the front of New Hall, is yet to be removed
from the spot.
The development is generating concern
among students, who queried the value the
school management attached to human lives.
The students said it was insensitive for the
school to keep the wire at the spot.
When CAMPUSLIFE visited the spot on
Monday, the perimeter fence of the hostel
was barricaded with safety tape. The pole to
which the high-tension wire is attached did
not have restriction tape, while the wire
remained on the spot.
Although the wire was said to have been de-
energise, students felt uncomfortable with the
cable still left on the spot.
A 300-Level Law student, who gave her name
as Bukola, said the development showed the
management did not care about the safety of
students. “Perhaps, they are waiting for
another tragedy to occur,” she said.
Another student, Olanike Ibiyemi, said: “If the
school management said the cables are not
serving the school, what is the logic of
leaving the severed wire on the hostel’s
entrance? Do they think another tragedy
cannot happen because there is no power
flow in wire? The management needs to be
alive with its responsibility.”
