A 25-year-old first year student of Philosophy at the Claretian University of Nigeria (CUN) Nekede, Owerri, Imo State, Suel Ambrose, slumped and died while performing the Easter Passion Play on Friday, April 15, 2022.
Some of the students, who spoke to newsmen at the school, said that the the deceased who hailed from Benue State was playing the role of St Peter when he suddenly slumped.
An eyewitness is quoted saying, “He was playing the role of the biblical Peter in the dream and that process when Peter cut the ear of one of the soldiers and Jesus fixed the ear and ask Peter to let them do their wish. You know how passionate the play is”.
“So when the soldiers chase the disciples to drive them away from Jesus, the young man fell on the floor and started bleeding,” the witness went on, adding that they rushed him to the school health facility but it was too late.
“We took him to the Federal Medical Center in Owerri where he was pronounced dead.”
The incident led to the suspension of all activities relating to Easter celebration in the school.
The priest in the university, Fr Chukwuemeka Iheme, who confirmed the incident said that he could “only speak further when authorised to do so.”
