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After the uproar which occurred yesterday at the University of Benin pertaining soldiers and angry UNIBEN students, it was reported that some Army officers invaded the school in the middle of the night, possibly to retaliate.

At around 9am this morning, police officers were seen at the University of Benin’s main gate. A man and a woman from the UNIBEN Security office were seen at the scene searching and picking bullets from the floor. While speaking with a respectable UNIBEN security personnel, he advised the students to play safe.

A member of the SUG parliament who was at the security post at the school’s main gate said the army officers came at night, at around midnight and destroyed everywhere.

According to a guy who claimed to be an ex-UNIBEN student, he said the video that was going round in the early hours of this morning did not happen this morning and he wasn’t sure if it was yesterday. He also said that since yesterday, the only time the armies came back was around 12 midnight. He said that UNIBEN security suffered an estimated 15 injured people who are at UBTH striving for their lives. Some were stabbed as the armies jumped over the fence into the school. “We were about to stage a peaceful protest at the main gate this morning but were stopped by the police”, he said. He said they were told that the matter had been tabled in Abuja and that there was no need for the protest.

A member of the security personnel who was interviewed testified that some of their members are at UBTH. According to him, the Deputy VC went to the Army barracks yesterday evening, to appeal to the Nigerian Army about what happened at the Fidelity Bank yesterday. Yet, they (UNIBEN securities) were still attacked in the middle of the night. He said they (UNIBEN Securities) were stopped from taking videos that their phones were smashed.
“Soldiers came through the bank roadside, destroyed things down to the main gate area”, he added.

A total of 27 damaged cars were counted at the scene.

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