Nigerian Student Found Guilty of Threatening Terrorism Against Scottish University to Be Deported by UK Government
Somtochukwu Okwuoha, a 26-year-old Nigerian master’s student, has threatened to blow up explosives at Dundee University in Scotland. The UK government intends to expel him. Politics Nigeria has reported that Okwuoha was given a 40-month prison sentence last Friday by the Perth Sheriff Court in the United Kingdom. Deportation was one of the penalties Okwuoha faced after being found guilty of threatening to carry out acts of terrorism against the faculty, staff, and students at the university. The foreign student claimed to have experience in the military and to be able to make explosives and release a deadly virus around the city. Witnesses said that Okwuoha told university personnel he intended to “target the city in a chemical attack” and that he “enlisted the terror group ISIS to help bomb the university”. “Your presence in the United Kingdom is not conducive to the public good, and I make a recommendation for your deportation in due course,” Sheriff William Wood said to the prisoner. Okwuoha was told by the Sheriff, “You were abusive towards her and tried to have her removed from her university course,” after he allegedly threatened a fellow female student for rejecting his advances. “The university decided to suspend you from your course, and you turned your attention towards staff,” he continued.