Governor Abdullahi Sule of Nasarawa State has said the deaths of two students of the Nasarawa State University during a stampede while palliative was looted in the school was not as a result of government’s negligence.
He stated this in an interview on Channels Television’s Sunday Politics monitored by DAILY POST.
DAILY POST recalls that the governor had reportedly ordered the distribution of two 7.5 kg bags of rice and N5,000 to each student of the state university in Keffi.
Two students, Grace Danladi and Rose Michael, died in the unfortunate incident, while others were injured during the stampede ahead of the distribution of the palliatives.
In his reaction to the incident, human rights advocate, Femi Falana, in a statement on Sunday, had said official negligence led to the death of the students.
Falana described the death of the students as unfortunate, noting that the authorities of the University failed to draw any lesson from the recent stampede which claimed the lives of seven persons during the distribution of 25kg bags of rice in Lagos by the Nigeria Customs Service.
