A protest was held on Friday at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital at Idi-Araba, calling for justice after a medical doctor, Dr. Stephen Urueye, was stabbed to death near the school on Thursday.
A hashtag, #JusticeforStephen has been trending on Twitter in the wake of his death.
According to a popular doctor on Twitter, Dr. Chioma Nwakanma, Urueye was an only son, who just convocated on Wednesday. She said he was stabbed to death around 9:00 p.m. at the LUTH Gate.
Doctors and students from the school held a protest on Friday, demanding that those responsible for his death be apprehended. They are also calling for improved security of lives and property in the university community.
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See tweets:
The protest is on , Students and Doctors from Luth are raising their voice demanding #JusticeforStephen , a Luth graduate and house officer who was killed yesterday in front of LUTH pic.twitter.com/HzEjSiChY4
— Deji (@dna_xo) April 5, 2019
A hospital in an environment of high crime rate. Yet the govt has done nothing to tighten security
Now in one night a young promising Dr, only son, who just convocated on Wednesday, stabbed to death by 9pm AT LUTH GATE + Male and Female hostels robbed!
God🤦🏽♀️😰#JusticeForStephen pic.twitter.com/G8a3m21UTh— Dr Chioma Nwakanma; The Zobo Sipper (@DrZobo) April 5, 2019
LUTH security team is trying to cover up saying he’s not a student…..ok. They robbed male and female hostels yesterday. They robbed your STUDENTS. WHAT WILL YOU DO ABOUT IT? 😠#justiceforstephen
— Valentina Ogochukwu Marinze (@Val_Marinze) April 5, 2019
The protest is on , Students and Doctors from Luth are raising their voice demanding #JusticeforStephen , a Luth graduate and house officer who was killed yesterday in front of LUTH pic.twitter.com/HzEjSiChY4
— Deji (@dna_xo) April 5, 2019
Nowhere is safe . Those hoodlums have terrorized this community for years and nothing has ever been done about it
Today we mourn, today we get justice. #JusticeForStephen— mercurial!!!!! (@sanmi_OD) April 5, 2019
To think I am finding out the nickname you were hiding from me like this is terribly painful.
Just this short period of meeting and knowing you was amazing and now the wicked people of Idiaraba have unjustly taken my friend away.
Let’s fight for Stephen #JusticeForStephen pic.twitter.com/NGp03BKeLJ— efficacyyinka (@efficacyyinka) April 5, 2019
