JUST
as Monguno Local Government Area of Borno State is about putting behind
it the recent killing of six secondary school teachers, including a
principal, the local government was again plunged into mourning as many
students were, on Saturday, murdered in cold blood by some gunmen
suspected to be members of the Jama’atul Ahlis Sunnah Lid’ Awati, also
known as Boko Haram.
Sunday Tribune learnt that the gunmen killed many students of Monguno Secondary School by slitting their throats, after laying an ambush for them as they returned home from centres where they wrote the West African Examination Council (WAEC) Senior Secondary Certificate Examination (SSCE).
Monguno is 135 kilometres North of Maiduguri, the state capital; and it is considered to be an epicentre of activities of the Islamist sect.
The gunmen, according to a villager, Mallam Aisami, ambushed the candidates on their way home on foot and bicycles. He added that the assailants tied the students’ hands together at their backs and slit their throats on the foot paths leading to the school premises in the afternoon.
He said when the dastardly deed had been done, the gunmen fled on three motorcycles towards Marte Local Government Area of Northern Borno before men of the Joint Task Force (JTF) rushed to the scene three hours after the students were already slewn.
Spokesman of JTF, Lieutenant Colonel Sagir Musa, and the Borno State Commissioner for Education, Alhaji Musa Inuwa Kubo, confirmed the incident on Saturday.
They stated that it was a very “unfortunate and frightening incident,” decrying all that had been happening in the state.
Sagir and Kubo could, however, not ascertain the exact number of students allegedly killed by the suspects at Monguno.
Kubo, in a telephone interview, told journalists that; “I am calling on the people of Borno State to continue to pray and fast so that the incessant attacks and killings in the state cease peace and unity are restored.
Sunday Tribune learnt that the gunmen killed many students of Monguno Secondary School by slitting their throats, after laying an ambush for them as they returned home from centres where they wrote the West African Examination Council (WAEC) Senior Secondary Certificate Examination (SSCE).
Monguno is 135 kilometres North of Maiduguri, the state capital; and it is considered to be an epicentre of activities of the Islamist sect.
The gunmen, according to a villager, Mallam Aisami, ambushed the candidates on their way home on foot and bicycles. He added that the assailants tied the students’ hands together at their backs and slit their throats on the foot paths leading to the school premises in the afternoon.
He said when the dastardly deed had been done, the gunmen fled on three motorcycles towards Marte Local Government Area of Northern Borno before men of the Joint Task Force (JTF) rushed to the scene three hours after the students were already slewn.
Spokesman of JTF, Lieutenant Colonel Sagir Musa, and the Borno State Commissioner for Education, Alhaji Musa Inuwa Kubo, confirmed the incident on Saturday.
They stated that it was a very “unfortunate and frightening incident,” decrying all that had been happening in the state.
Sagir and Kubo could, however, not ascertain the exact number of students allegedly killed by the suspects at Monguno.
Kubo, in a telephone interview, told journalists that; “I am calling on the people of Borno State to continue to pray and fast so that the incessant attacks and killings in the state cease peace and unity are restored.
The gunmen, according to a villager, Mallam Aisami, ambushed the candidates on their way home on foot and bicycles.
He added that the assailants tied the students’ hands together at their backs and slit their throats on the foot paths leading to the school premises in the afternoon.
He added that the assailants tied the students’ hands together at their backs and slit their throats on the foot paths leading to the school premises in the afternoon.
A top female judge (names withheld) was said to have
narrowly escaped the bullets of some gunmen suspected to be members of
the Islamic militants Boko Haram, when they stormed her residence at the
G.R.A, in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital.
A source who did not want his name in print told Sunday Tribune on Saturday, that the incident happened on Thursday evening when some young men came looking for the judge at about the time she normally returned home from office.
According to him, when they arrived the residence in a golf car, one of her aides who was already speaking with her on phone sensed danger when he discovered that the young men were carrying guns and warned her not to come home.
He said: “That was what saved her because immediately she learnt that some armed men were waiting for her at home, she did not bother to go home and after waiting for almost an hour, they drove off in their golf car.”
He disclosed that since the incident occurred, the judge had not returned home as they even learnt that she may be relocating to Abuja as a result of the incident.
A source who did not want his name in print told Sunday Tribune on Saturday, that the incident happened on Thursday evening when some young men came looking for the judge at about the time she normally returned home from office.
According to him, when they arrived the residence in a golf car, one of her aides who was already speaking with her on phone sensed danger when he discovered that the young men were carrying guns and warned her not to come home.
He said: “That was what saved her because immediately she learnt that some armed men were waiting for her at home, she did not bother to go home and after waiting for almost an hour, they drove off in their golf car.”
He disclosed that since the incident occurred, the judge had not returned home as they even learnt that she may be relocating to Abuja as a result of the incident.
Footnotes:
This is too bad, the killings by Mohammed Shekau and his acolytes are
crimes against humanity. We need to see Islamic cleric clearly come out
and dissociate themselves from this depravity as it is smearing a bad
name to all Muslims in the country. Rather than the Arewa elders
clamouring for ludicrous amnesty on these barefaced monsters, they
should be asking for justice on the thousands of Nigerians including
many Arewa youths whose lives had been robbed off them at their prime.
Hundreds of security personnel, many of northern extraction have paid
the ultimate price for this country while fighting these cold hearted
beasts. Rather than ensuring that the death of these lot are not in
vain, they are making inexcusable request. I pity Nigeria as we are
faced with a bleak future if our affairs are being runned by these
hapless elites and so called superintendents of the country. Sad to know
that we now have Jonathan controlled Nigeria and Shekau controlled
Nigeria, smh. May the souls of these students rest in peace with the
Almighty.
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