UNN students' deaths: Gov Mbah orders investigation, seeks ban on sign-out celebrations

Governor of Enugu State, Dr Peter Mbah, has expressed heavy grief implicit the passing connected of 4 students of the University of Nigeria Nsukka, UNN, who reportedly died during an off-campus sign-out enactment for 1 of their friends, describing it arsenic a heartbreaking loss.

Mbah described the incidental arsenic a grievous loss, not lone for the deceased’s contiguous families and UNN, but to Enugu State arsenic a whole, and called for a prohibition connected sign-out menace among undergraduates, noting that it had brought excessively galore sorrows to families and tertiary acquisition instauration successful the country.

This was contained successful a property connection released by the Governor's media aide, Mazi Uche Anichukwu, connected Thursday.

“I received with rude daze and heavy consciousness of nonaccomplishment the quality of the off-campus sing-out enactment starring to the decease of 4 students of the University of Nigeria Nsukka, and hospitalisation of six others.

“This is simply a grievous nonaccomplishment not lone to the contiguous families of the deceased and the university, but besides to america arsenic a state. Losing them successful their premier and on with their promising aboriginal cuts arsenic profoundly arsenic a crisp knife. We, truthful stock successful this grief and commune God to assistance their families, friends, and the UNN assemblage the equanimity to carnivore the heartbreaking loss.

“Our hearts spell retired to their parents successful particular, who sacrificed idiosyncratic comforts to sponsor their children done the university, but lone to look this bittersweet crook of events.

“As a government, we person ordered a thorough probe into the circumstances surrounding their deaths and volition enactment intimately with the assemblage authorities and information agencies to get to the roots of the bittersweet improvement and forestall a recurrence.

“In the meantime, I person suspended my scheduled municipality hallway gathering with the UNN assemblage connected Friday, November 13, 2026, arsenic we articulation the assemblage successful mourning the dead.

“Going forward, we volition enactment with the authorities of tertiary institutions to enforce a afloat prohibition connected sign-out parties and different excessive celebrations, a inclination that has outgo much lives and brought much sorrows than joyousness to families and higher institutions of learning,” the politician stated.

Mbah besides called for much enlightenment campaigns by applicable agencies and institutions connected the consequences of cause usage and abuse.

He prayed for the peaceful repose of the souls of the deceased.

UNN students' deaths: Gov Mbah orders investigation, seeks prohibition connected sign-out celebrations