Exclusive: Caleb University students escape Python attack

By Bola Ayowunmi

Students of Caleb University were lucky. A huge python that tried to invade the campus during the week was repelled by stone-throwing students stunned by the sudden invasion of the campus by the python. The school security was caught unawares.

“It was in the evening. Some students noticed a strange, huge crawling reptile trying to scale the fence. It turned out to be a python coming to attack the students. We were helpless. We didn’t know what to do,” Chude Morka, a 400 year student who witnessed the event told Irohinoodua.

He said awed students started throwing stones.

“Many of us were seeing python for the first time in our lives. We didnt kill th python. It means it can come back anytime. Nobody cares about out safety.”

He said the python would have attacked students if it had managed to sneak into the school.

“We are afraid. We are so worried. We don’t know what next may happen. It shows clearly that we are not safe,” Morka said.

Another student who does not wish to be named said the school authority is very weak in terms of students’ security.

The source said
“The security officials concentrate at the gate. Its difficult for them to know what goes on in and around the hostel.

Another source also complained that the school environment is “bushy and unkempt” adding that most students are worried about their safety especially in the context of kidnapping and invasion of schools by terrorists.

Othe students complained about poor food and health services.

“There are only two food vendors in the school for thousands of students and the food varieties are very poor but very expensive. They sell beans for instance only once in a week. Students are compelled to eat indomie and noodles for most of the time while which is not healthy, sometimes there is no water available for the students to drink.”

The student said the health centre is poorly equipped and that tests are not carried out before the nurses treat the student patients.

Most students link their travails to the lack of a students’ union that would produce representives expected to speak for the students.

Irohinoodua spoke to an official of the school who does not want his name mentioned.

He said the “school is trying its best to deal with the challenges.”