The University of Port Harcourt (UNIPORT) says it has banned pleasure swimming in the University swimming pool following the death of a man who drowned in the pool last Sunday.
A statement released by the Vice Chancellor of the institution, Professor Owunari Abraham Georgewill, which was cited by our reporter read:
“We wish to inform all staff and students that the University of Port Harcourt swimming pool is an Olympic size swimming pool and henceforth we are placing a ban on pleasure swimming in the pool. Kindly bear with us as this is done to forestall further unfortunate incidents as it happened yesterday Sunday 12th September 2021. We lost a student of Rivers State University who came to swim for leisure with his three friends”.
Meanwhile our reporter gathered that two young men who came in company of the deceased simply identified as Emmanuel for the pleasure swimming were been detained at Choba Divisional Police headquarters where they were been interrogated on what led to the drowning of the deceased.
The Public Relations Officer of Rivers State Police Command, SP Nnamdi Omoni, was yet to respond to text messages sent by our reporter on the arrest of the deceased victim’s friends.
