Gunmen suspected to be members of the Boko Haram terrorists today attacked three different public schools within the Maiduguri Metropolitan Council, (MMC) of Borno state, killing three teachers and injured three female students, DailyPost can confirm.
The separate attacks which took place in the early hours of Monday, forced many people, especially students and teachers to hurriedly close schools in Maiduguri, while parents were seen rushing to various schools to pick up their wards and children for safety.
Eye witness who does not want his name in print told our correspondents on phone that three female teachers were killed in the Shehu Sanda Kyarimi Secondary School around Ruwan Zafi ward of the city.
DailyPost reporter gathered that the incident occurred at about 9:10am on Monday around Ruwan Zafi area of Maiduguri Metropolitan Council, where six suspected Boko Haram sect laid ambush to Shehu Sanda Kyarimi Secondary School, and killed a teacher who cannot exactly be identified at the moment. Relatively, about three female students sustained various degrees of injuries from stray bullets.
In a similar development, gunmen also attacked a public school in Mafoni ward of Maiduguri Metropolitan Council, around 11:20am where they stormed Ali Askiri Primary School and shot one Mallam Abdullahi, before moving to Mafoni Day Secondary School, killing a female teacher, Hajja Yagumsu.
When newsmen contacted the Spokesman of the Joint Task Force (JTF), Lt. Col. Sagir Musa, he said he was compiling details of the attacks, and when he is done, he would send out emails regarding the incident.
However, a top security source who spoke on the condition of anonymity told Journalists that at “about 09:10am, around Ruwan Zafi area of Maiduguri Metropolis, six suspected Boko Haram sects attacked Shehu Sanda Kyarimi Secondary School, and killed a teacher whose identity could not be ascertained as at press time, while three female students sustained injuries, adding that at about 1120 hours at Mafoni area of the metropolis, another gang suspected to be Boko Haram stormed Ali Askiri Primary School killing a teacher, Mallam Abdullahi.
He further stated that after attacking the Ali Askira Primary School , the same gunmen moved to Mafoni Day Secondary School and killed a female teacher identified as Hajja Yagumsu”.
Speaking to Journalists on the separate attacks,the Commissioner for Home Affairs, Information and Culture, Mr. Inuwa Bwala said, it was unfortunate that even when the state Government under the leadership of Governor Kashim Shettima had placed much priority on the education sector, the security challenges in the state still poses great threat to the people of the state.
Bwala said since the emergence of the Boko Haram insurgency, a lot of schools burnt down by suspected terrorists were renovated while others were still undergoing renovation with the scarce resources of the state Government.
He said the State Government has reiterated its commitment to end the hostilities, by opening another door for possible dialogue with the sect, and wondered why violence still persists in the state. He stressed that the state government was willing and ready to dialogue with the Boko Haram sect in order to restore peace back to the state.
As at the time of filing in this report, no group has claimed responsibility of the attack yet, but some factions of the Boko Haram sect had claimed responsibility of similar attacks in the past.
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