Boko Haram Massacre: Yobe Governor In Tears At The Sight Of Corpses Of 40 Victims

Yobe State Governor Ibrahim Gaidam
Governor Ibrahim Gaidam of Yobe State could not
hold back his tears when he visited the Damaturu's
specialist hospital where the injured from a fresh Boko
Haram attack were recuperating.
The critically injured; five students, three of whom
have fractures, one has a abdominal injury and another
a bullet wound lied helplessly at the hospital as the
governor sympathised with them. He couldn't however
hold himself at the sight of 40 corpses, all students of
the School of Agriculture, Gujba, the latest victims of
the Boko Haram massacre.
The Medical Director, Damaturu Specialist Hospital, Dr
Garba Fika, confirmed that 40 students of the college
were killed in the attack early Sunday.
Speaking amid tears, the governor urged security
operatives to intensify aerial surveillance of the area.
The state deputy governor, Abubakar Aliyu, the
Provost of the College Mulima Mato, and other
dignitaries also shed tears at the mortuary when they
saw the corpses of the students.
Schools in Yobe re-opened just 13 days ago after 10
weeks of forced closure following unrelenting Boko
Haram attacks on schools, attacks which had led to the
death of 29 students and three teachers.
Seven students and two teachers were in June killed at
Government Secondary School Damaturu. In July, 22
students and two teachers were killed at Government
Secondary School Mamudo.
Meanwhile, chairman of the Northern Governors
Forum, Governor Babangida Aliyu has charged security
agencies to do all within their powers to halt the killing
of defenceless citizens, and attacks on places of worship
and educational facilities especially in the North East,
by members of extremist sect, Boko Haram.
Aliyu said its members were seriously concerned at
renewed attacks on innocent people, following
Sunday's killing of 40 students of the College of
Agriculture, Gujba, Yobe State, as well as the killing of
15 persons in Zangang community in Kaura Local
Government Area of Kaduna State.
"The forum is particularly alarmed that the shooting to
dead of 40 students of the College of Education; Gujba,
Yobe State followed the same pattern as the killing of
22 students and a teacher at Government Secondary
School, Mamudo in the same state last July," said a
statement signed by Mr. Aliyu's Chief Press Secretary,
Danladi Ndayebo.