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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