The public relations officer of the institution, Ikechukwu Ezeanioma, confirmed the development but said he did not know the number of students taken by the police.
He however said the vice Chancellor of the university, Prof. Aloysius-Michaels Okolie, was already interfacing with the police to ascertain the veracity of the reports.
He said: “There were some arrests in ESUT yesterday (Friday). But they are some suspected cultists. I don’t know the actual number but it is not up that magnitude.
“The Vice Chancellor is already interfacing with the police on the matter to ascertain the veracity of the whole report”.
However reports quoting the President of the ESUT Students Union Government (SUG), Donatus Okolieuwa, claimed that no fewer than 50 innocent students of the university were arrested by the police.
Okolieuwa, described the arrest as a clamp down on students, saying that it was quite detestable and condemnable.
Asked how the incident took place, the SUG President narrated: “While I was in a students meeting in Enugu, a student called and told me that around 5pm/6pm armed men invaded the school cafeteria with 2 Hillux vans and a sienna bus, and released a gun shot in the air.
“Due to the manner in which they arrived, and owing to the stories of unknown gunmen in the society and the shooting in the air, the students who were in front of the cafeteria chilling with drinks at that evening hour started running away for their safety.
“On the process, the armed men started running after the students, surrounded them all, then entered the cafeteria and arrested everybody inside the cafeteria, including those who were playing snookers, games, female students who came to the cafeteria to charge their phones and other electronic gadgets, the staff and manager of the cafeteria and members of our university security.
“On hearing this, I called our school CSO to ascertain if he is aware of such incident in the school, he said no, that he was not aware, and that he would get to the scene with his men immediately.”
