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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