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.
DailyPost 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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