In the aftermath of the killings on Monday last week, the top management of the institution met and resolved to write the letter which was routed through the office of the minister of education.
A copy of the letter according to LEADERSHIP SUNDAY findings reads in part: “The incident that occurred in Mubi is not hooliganism and it is not cultism, neither is it linked to the post Students Union Government (SUG) election violence.
“From the school’s findings, six students of the institution were killed and four were injured. More so, the incident occurred outside the school and those who committed the act are not students as widely reported in the media.”
The letter, which was signed by the rector of the Polytechnic, Dr. Sadiq Girei, and dated October 4, 2012, LEADERSHIP SUNDAY learnt, also solicited the permission of the Ministry of Education “to make public the findings of the institution”.
The school authorities, according to the letter, are stating that the scene of the attack was at the ‘students’ village’, some 2 kilometres away from its campus, which also hosted students from other institutions.
They also informed the federal authorities that the gunmen used sophisticated weapons during the attack.
Even as the institution is counting its losses, the Non-Academic Senior Staff Union of Polytechnics has decried the inability of the governor of Adamawa State, Admiral Muritala Nyako (retd), to personally visit the institution after the massacre.
Its national president, Reverend Sunday Sabo told LEADERSHIP SUNDAY: “It is sad that the governor of Adamawa State, Admiral Murtala Nyako, as the host governor has not done well as he did not visit the school, but only sent his deputy, Barr. Bala Ngalari, on Thursday, three days after the incident, while the governors of Akwa Ibom, Gombe and Taraba states sent buses to evacuate their indigenes. These governors must be commended for their quick response.”
Last Monday, unidentified gunmen attacked locations in Mubi town where some students of tertiary institutions sited in the town reside and killed about 40 persons, while an unspecified number were wounded.
Police said it had made arrests of some persons following the attack.
Meanwhile, the authorities of the Adamawa State Polytechnic, Yola, have expressed concern over the activities of some miscreants who always trespassed into the school through illegal routes to harass students and engaged in smoking and selling of marijuana or ‘Indian hemp,’ among other illegal acts, within the school campus. These acts, the school said, have been threatening the peaceful academic environment of the institution.
Addressing journalists yesterday in his office, the rector of the polytechnic, Prof. Bobboi Umar, blamed some hoodlums residing close to the school as being responsible for terrorising the students. According to him, several of them were arrested in the past and handed over to the police, but they continued with their illegal acts.
The rector, however, challenged the police to bring the culprits to book.
He said that the institution had written several letters to the police authorities in the past, all to no avail, pointing out that the institution had taken several security measures to checkmate the activities of the hoodlums without any positive result.
2 Dead, 8 Injured As Explosion Rocks Taraba
A bomb explosion yesterday rocked an area in Gindin Doruwa along Abubakar Barde Road, near a state television studio in Jalingo, Taraba State.
Though the details of the blast were sketchy as at press time, two people were feared dead while eight people were said to have been injured during the explosion.
The blast reportedly occurred in an area known for trade in locally brewed beer, Burukutu
It was the second blast in Jalingo in two days as a blast at an outdoor bar had killed at least one person and wounded 14 people on Thursday.
Reuters also reports that the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) spokesman Yushua Shuaib said by text message that a woman and five children were among the wounded, alongside two others.
Witnesses said at least two people died in the blast while several others received injuries.
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