When I saw this, I was beyond stunned! Laying ambush and killing secondary school students who were returning from writing WAEC? Dear God! Our leaders keep saying we should pray for peace, WTH, we should be praying for Justice! Our president is busy granting pardon to his criminal brothers instead of putting an end to these incessant killings.
Culled from Sunday Tribune;
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.
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