A 16-year-old final year pupil,
Mubarak Gidado, sitting for the
ongoing West African Senior
School Certificate Examination
in Bauchi State, has died of
burns.
He was engulfed by fire when
he tried to start a generator
which went up in flames; he
died two days later. It was
gathered that Mubarak died at
the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa
University Teaching Hospital,
where he was taken to for
medical treatment immediately
the incident happened.
The father, Aliyu Gidado, told
Punch his son, an SSS III
student of FOMWAN Model
Secondary School, Bauchi, was
trying to put on the generator
behind their house when the
“sad accident” occurred.
“On Wednesday, April 22,
at about 7pm, my son
went to start the
generator, but it went up
in flames and the fire
consumed him. He was
burnt from head to toe,”
he said.
The deceased’s father said
efforts to save his son, who
was to sit for Mathematics the
following day after the incident,
were unsuccessful.
“The doctors gave him a
50-50 chance, but his
condition grew worse
and he was placed on life
support machine but his
heart failed and he gave
up,”
Aliyu expressed shock over the
incident noting that Mubarak
had been putting on the
generator for many years.
He said, “As a father, you
can’t quantify the grief of
losing a child. It is God
that gives and takes and
we cannot question him.
“I thank God for
Mubarak’s life. He was an
obedient child. He wanted
to study Computer
Science, but now he is no
more.”
He added that his son’s school
mates and teachers came to his
house to sympathise with the
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SAD NEWS.......RIP BRO

What a news...May God accept your soul, Amen!

Sad. That is the cummulative cost of poor leadership in Nigeria. The ammount of blood that is on the hands of our leaders past and present . . . . only God knows.