Yobe massacre: How soldiers mysteriously withdrew before attack leaving school unprotected

by ‘Jola Sotubo

Governor Ibrahim  Geidam
Governor Ibrahim Geidam

According Governor Ibrahim Gaidam of Yobe, soldiers protecting the area near the Federal Government College, Buni Yadi were mysteriously withdrawn just before yesterday’s early morning attacks occurred.

This was revealed by the governor’s spokesman, Abdullahi Bego, who also said that female students were spared in the attack.

Governor Gaidam is said to have stated that he would launch an investigation into why the troops abandoned their posts leaving the school unprotected.

Associated Press reports:

 

Touring the smoldering ruins Tuesday at the Federal Government College of Buni Yadi, Gov. Ibrahim Gaidam decried the federal government’s failure to protect the population.

“It is unfortunate that our children in schools are dying from lack of adequate protection from the federal government,” Gaidam told reporters.

He called on President Goodluck Jonathan to deploy more troops to the region.

Jonathan, who rarely comments on individual attacks, said in a statement that he felt “immense sadness and anguish” by the loss of life at the school, and vowed that the military would “continue to prosecute the war against terror with full vigor, diligence and determination.”

Garba said the militants locked the door of a dormitory where male students were sleeping, then set it on fire. Some students were burned alive in the attack that began around 2 a.m., he said.

The governor said it took hours for troops to arrive, giving the assailants plenty of time to set the rest of the school campus ablaze— six dormitories, the administrative building, staff quarters, classrooms, a clinic and the kitchen.

Bego, the governor’s spokesman, said the governor will be looking into why the school was left unprotected. “The community complained to the governor that yesterday the military were withdrawn and then the attack happened,” he said.

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