Armed robbers attack Rivers’ varsity hostel, steal valuables, rape female students

Armed robbers, on Wednesday night, invaded some hostels at Rivers State University, carting away students’ valuables and assaulting two female students sexually.

It was gathered that the robbers, armed with guns and machetes, reportedly stormed Female Hostel D before resorting to sexually harassing at least two of their female victims.

Some of the students who do not want their names mentioned said they have been repeatedly harassed by criminals, adding that the state university has not been proactive in tackling this.

One of them said, “The boys come into the hostel from the backside where our laundering room is. They fingered some girls, raped some and took many phones and laptops. After all these the school security is telling us to wait, wait for what? if we are their daughters, will they allow this to happen to them?”

Another student claimed that individuals are allowed access into the school late at night if they could pay N1000 to bribe the security personnel mounting the gates, adding that the school security is complicit in the incident.

She said, “There is no way you will say these criminals came from inside the school they came from the outside. If you are coming from outside that late you have to bribe the school security N1000. They will take 1000, then they will allow you inside the school.

“If they actually broke through the school security it then means the school security is involved. There were gunshots, there is no way the school security will claim they did not hear and the Mile 3 police is just here but they did not do anything.”