The Principal of
Government College, Makurdi Benue State, Godfrey Ugudu, on Saturday said
the school has received letters from Boko Haram sect threatening to attack the
school. Ugudu, who announced this at a news conference in Makurdi today
says the school received two letters which had the same content on 14 May.
PM News reports:
“It is true that we saw
two letters informing us of the intention of the sect to invade our school on
Friday or Monday by Boko Haram. The letters were dated May 14, 2014, stating
that they were coming either of the two days to abduct our boys whom they would
marry to the secondary school girls abducted in Chibok.
In the letter, we
were asked to inform the Mount Saint Gabriel Secondary School opposite us to
also get prepared as they promised to invade the place too.’’
According to him:
“we immediately
alerted the police and the Commissioner for Education. A report has been made
to the Governor on the issue. The two letters, which were written in pidgin
English, were sighted inside one of the classrooms and the second one was
slipped into the staff room."
The principal commended the government and security
operatives in the state for their prompt response to the issue. He said that
everything had been done to ensure the safety of the school children, adding
that he had informed the Principal of Mount Saint Gabriel.
NAN reports that about 500 out of about 700 students
of the college are living in the school while Mount Saint Gabriel is purely
boarding school. The Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Dan Ezeala,
confirmed the report and assured that police were on top of the situation.
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