AN old TikTok video had prompted a break-and-enter into a room of a first-year male student’s dormitory by several armed senior students last Friday at the Papua New Guinea University of Technology (Unitech) campus in Lae, Morobe Province, the National reports.
The student’s father, Paul Toll, told The National that the name calling and the verbal abuse his son endured led to a group of students breaking into his son’s room ransacking it, stealing his clothes, electrical appliances, beddings and other personal items between 10pm and 11pm last Friday night.
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| PNG University of Technology Campus [Photo by PNG Education News] |
Toll said he reported the matter to the university’s security service and the administration but had not received a response from them.
“From the information I gathered in the lead up to the stealing from my son’s room, an old video of his from TikTok was shared by another first year student to other students of the school,” he said. “That video is old and I had asked him to remove it which he did and that video was done in Port Moresby and not in Lae as alleged by the students on campus.”
Toll said after the video was shared, a senior student had approached his son and told him to stop dressing up as a senior student and that students at Unitech did not need to dress “neatly”.
Toll said on that Friday morning, as his son was sitting with some female friends at the campus coffee shop, he was verbally abused by several male students.
His son was later told that several senior students were looking for him.
“Not knowing what to expect, my son went to his room and removed all the valuable items and left,” Toll said.
Toll said he would see the university’s administration about the incident and bring in the police to identify and arrest those involved in the break-in and theft.
The National / Pacific Tech
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