No doubt, some people will begin to question the relevance of the ongoing military campaign against the insurgents in the northeastern part of Nigeria because of some recent attacks on some secondary school students in Maiduguri Borno State. Reports had it that some of the students were killed while writing their National Examination Council,NECO,exams. Well, emotions can be excused here, but it is better to keep the military campaign on track than to let our emotions push us to call for withdrawal of the military campaign against the sects in the northesat. It is a war-like situation we are having in the northeast of the country and things like these happens in such instances. The truth is these Boko Haram guys have consistently made hapless civilians their targets. Shame on them for picking on innocent civilians. That is the more reason why the military should intensify the campaign against the sect in a more aggressive manner.-#Ebi. IN THE NEWS: Terrorists Open Fire In NECO Exam Hall: At least 23 persons including nine students and one examination official were yesterday killed by gunmen suspected to be members of the Boko Haram Islamic sect in separate attacks in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital. The incidents came barely 24 hours after seven students and two teachers of Government Secondary School, Damaturu, the Yobe State capital, were killed.The killings appear to mark the resumption of the sect’s murderous campaign, which has been largely put on hold by military operations in the North following President Goodluck Jonathan’s declaration of a state of emergency in Adamawa, Borno and Yobe states. Our correspondent gathered that the nine students killed were candidates writing the ongoing National Examination Council, NECO, exams.The gunmen, it was learnt, stormed Ansarudeen Private Primary and Secondary School in Jajeri ward of the metropolis and opened fire into the hall a minute after the examination started.An eyewitness, who did not want his name mentioned, told our correspondent that one of the victims went to write the exams for somebody else, before he met his untimely death at about 3p.m. when the gunmen struck.“I saw five students sitting for the exams killed on the spot. Four others were killed as they were entering the school premises,” Ibrahim Mohammed, an eyewitness, said on the phone yesterday.Alhaji Baba, a mortuary attendant at the State Specialist morgue in Maiduguri said he counted nine corpses after the attack.Further details were still unclear as at the time of filing this report.-National Mirror Online.
Posted on: Wed, 19 Jun 2013 08:41:19 +0000
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