Gunmen kill many SSCE students in Borno

By Maina Maina on April 13, 2013

After three weeks that six secondary school teachers, including a principal were killed in Monguno local government Area of Borno state, the state has continued to face series of violence even with the presence of security agents.

Our correspondent learnt that gunmen suspected to be members of Boko Haram sect killed several students of Monguno
Secondary School, by cutting off their throats, while they were returning home after their Senior Secondary school Examination Certificate,SSCE.

Monguno is 135 kilometres north of Maiduguri, the state capital; and Has been an operating ground of the Islamist Boko Haram.

The gunmen, according to a villager, Mallam Aisami, ambushed the West African Examination Council,WAEC, candidates on their ways home on foot and bicycles. Their hands were tied to the backs. They were all killed on the path leading to their school premises.

He said the gunmen fled on three motorcycles towards Marte council area of the Northern Borno, before men of the Joint Task Force,JTF, rushed to the scene, after three hours.



The spokesman of the JTF, Lt. Col Sagir Musa and the Borno state Commissioner of Education, Alhaji Musa Inuwa Kubo confirmed the incident on Saturday, stating that was an “unfortunate and frightening incident”

Sagir and Kubo could not ascertain the exact number of students allegedly killed by the suspects at Monguno.

Kubo in a telephone interview told newsmen 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 can stop.

I pray that the trying and challenging times of insecurity to lives and property here in Borno will come to an end soon by the grace of God and with the full support of our leaders in the state.”

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I believe the fg is waiting for a nuclear bomb attack before action will be taken. The politicians and government of borno deserves some pressure from the center.

I believe the fg is waiting for a nuclear bomb attack before action will be taken. The politicians and government of borno deserve some pressure from the center.

FP material.....

The demand for Amnesty for these killers is pure evil. I weep for these children, I weep for their families. How can these people be termed human beings - Book Haram Group are evil.

There should be declaration of state of emergency in Borno, Northern leaders should stop pretending; they should realize that their future are being cut off.

What do you expect from a president that spend close to 1Billion naira on feeding alone? Too much food they say,dulls one's thinking ability.mR president is too slow for my liking.Seeking for third tenure? Mtcheeeeeeeeeeeeeew! Snail presidoo!

The situation is turning pathetic, the amnesty is not just the solution. GEJ is so lenient on terrorist and there sponsors. I just really miss OBJ. This topic however deserves the front page.

The North is marching straight back to the stone age with epic swag.

What really do you expect? They are just playing politics with it - the presidency/FG, northern elders, legislature, and rest of them.

I wonder why no action or pronouncement has been heard from the federal authorities. But if they hear Ameachi or lamidos posters have been pasted somewhere, you hear different stupid responses from either Abati or Okukpe. Let this lame government take a political stand against terrorism.

OBJ should contest 2015

The government is sleeping to their responsibilities but when will they wake up. Time is actually running out. A state of emergency suggested by the poster is long overdue at all the hot spots. Let the politicians in the affected states be pressurised to look for bokoharam and the military full authority to carry out their operations on the group.

Fo.rk amnesty, if FG must defeat boko haram it must employ superior violence, fire for fire, bomb for bomb. The Air force should be called upon to carry out targeted bombings on boko haram stronghold in Borno, Bauchi and Yobe. This will send a strong message to those accommodating them. Most importantly this bombardment should take place at night for maximum panic effect.

As for the "innocent", that can be categorised as collateral damage, with this BH will fizzle out in no time.