About 40 girls have sustained various degrees of injuries in a skirmish that broke out between students of Government Girls’ College Damaturu and that of Government Girls’ Secondary School Buni Gari this morning.
DAILY POST reports that, the injured victims were taken to the emergency unit of Yobe State Specialists’ Hospital Damaturu for medical treatment
Our reporter gathered that fight broke out among the girls when a disagreement between two girls went beyond normal. Sticks and other weapons were used in the free-for-all.
Recall that at the height of Boko Haram insurgency, Government Girls’ Secondary School Buni Gari was relocated to the Government Girls’ College Damaturu.
The Principal, Government Girls’ Unity College (GGUC) Damaturu, Mrs Laraba Aji Malah has dispelled rumour making the rounds that students of the school ate poisonous food today.
The principal while confirming DAILY POST’s report on the outbreak of violence in the State, said it was a misunderstanding among the students.
“The students did not in anyway eat poisonous food as rumoured, it was a misunderstanding among them that led to fracas and the issue has been resolved,” she confirmed.
DAILY POST reports that the students that were taken to hospital for medical examination following a stampede during the fracas have been discharged and have returned to their classes.
The development has plunged parents and guardians of the students into a state of anxiety, uncertainty and apprehension, as they stormed the emergency unit of the Yobe State Specialists’ hospital and the college demanding for explanation regarding the incident.
Abubakar Faruq, a guardian to one the students said, he was informed that students of the college were given poisonous food.
“When I went to the college to make enquiries, I was made to understand that the it was a false alarm”, he noted.
Mohammed Sani Gashua, a father of three students of the college while speaking to DAILY POST said rumour has it that the students were poisoned and that Boko Haram insurgents have infiltrated the town, only to find out that it was untrue.
“I gathered that, a student from GGSS, Buni Gari urinated close to where the students source for water and all of a sudden both sides engaged in argument which later culminated in the fracas”, Gashua narrated.
DAILY POST reports that, parents and guardians were later allowed by the school authority to interface with their children.
Government Girls’ Unity College, Damaturu is presently hosting Government Girls’ Secondary School Buni-Gari, Government Day Secondary School Buni-Yadi and Government Junior Day Secondary School Damaturu, hence the school are operating within the same fence following their displacement during the height of insurgency.
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