Following the assaults on Chikam neighborhood, adjoining Plateau State College (PLASU) in Bokkos, the place a 200-Stage Laptop Science pupil, Dading James Jordan, misplaced his life, the establishment has declared a two-day mourning interval.
The College authorities additionally suspended the continued semester examinations.
This was contained in a press assertion signed by the Registrar of the College, Yakubu Ayuba, a duplicate of which was made out there to LEADERSHIP in Jos on Friday.
The assertion additionally condoled with the Vice Chancellor, Professor Shadrach Greatest, and the complete Administration and Workers of PLASU, the household of the deceased and the scholars’ physique within the establishment over the irreparable loss.
Ayuba additionally lamented that the assaults occurred regardless of the efforts of Plateau State Authorities, safety businesses, administration of the establishment and different stakeholders at bettering the safety state of affairs.
Based on him, the dastardly assault, which was very unlucky, prompted the two-day mourning and suspension of the continued examinations.
“In view of this unhappy improvement, Administration has declared a two-day mourning interval on Friday and Saturday.”
Yakubu additional referred to as on college students to stay calm and law-abiding, likewise on safety businesses to beef up safety across the college to be able to safe workers and college students because the establishment appears to be like for extra technique of bettering safety of the establishment.
In the meantime, Governor Caleb Mutfwang has appealed for calm as safety businesses have been working to revive normalcy.
The governor, in a press release issued by the director of press and public affairs, Gyang Bere, described the assault as barbaric and reassured residents, significantly college students, of the state authorities’s unwavering dedication to safeguarding their lives and property.
He urged them to stay composed within the face of the tragedy, as authorities was decided to apprehend and prosecute these liable for the heinous acts.