The
Boko Haram attack on Government Girls Science and Technical College, Dapchi,
may have created a setback for the efforts to get girls to remain in schools in
Yobe State.
One of the pupils, Faiza
Mohammed, said yesterday that she would not return to school except Chief of
Army Staff Lt.-Gen. Yusuf Tukur Buratai is the gateman.
The attack on the school has
also caused some level of panic across the northern part of Yobe State which
witnessed fewer attacks of the insurgents in the last seven years.
Faiza, who gave a graphic
account of the pupils’ experience while avoiding the marauding terrorists, said
one of her classmates was bitten by a snake as they tried to escape through the
bush in the night; others broke their legs.
Faiza
praised the efforts of “our teachers who tried to keep us together”. “They
tried their best to control us not to scatter into the bush but some stubborn
students started jumping the fence to run into the bush. There were some of us
that hid in nearby houses from the school.”
She said the Vice Principal
(Academics) and the Vice Principal (Admin) were monitoring the movement of the
Boko Haram men around the school.
“I told my mother that I will
not go back to that school again, except Buratai is the gateman. But my
sister’s daughter told me that my demands are impossible because Gen. Buratai
cannot come down to Dapchi to become gateman in my school. What I simply want
is for government to provide for us enough security.
“Because of what my sister
said, I will go back but if I see no security, I will just come back and study
at home and write my final exams and my JAMB,” Faiza said.
The state government closed
down the school for one week. The Army has launched a search and rescue
operation for the missing students.
Some of the parents have
taken to the social media to demand explanation on the missing girls.
One
wrote on his faebook page:
#Tragedy
#Disaster#Trauma #Emergency
Where
are our Girls?
Following
the attack on Dapchi my hometown by suspected Boko Haram members and their
penetration into the Government Girls Science and Technical College in the town
on Monday 19/2/2018. A lot of families are left in confusion and trauma of not
knowing the whereabout of their daughters and the authorities concerned did not
give any genuine feedback to the people.
The
Authorities insist the Girls are missing while parents of the Girls and
Community members including myself have established that those girls were
abducted by the insurgents just as the widely publicized Chibok Girls.
I
am by this urging the Government at all levels to be sincere with us and let us
know and possibly participate in any effort put in place for
finding the “missing “ girls. To the media also, your investigative
reportage should not just stop at political wrangling, this is a
time the helpless community people need your
services.
So
far, within Dapchi town alone, nothing is heard of over forty girls and no
Authority consoled their families after almost 48hrs. Haba!
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