Some of the survivors of last Saturday’s
midnight attack on the students of the
College of Agriculture, Gujba, Yobe State,
which about 70 students were killed, have
narrated how they escaped death by the
whiskers, jumping through the window
when the gunmen stormed the hostel.
The survivors, who are now receiving
medical treatment at the Sani Abacha
Specialist Hospital, following injuries
received during the attack told journalists
yesterday that the gunmen, who were
cladded in military camouflage stormed
the school in a commando style and
opened fire on them.
According to Adamu Mohammed, a final
year student of Animal Husbandry
department when it dawned on the
students that the school was surrounded
by the gunmen, all the students were
confused and began to seek escape routes.
He said: “We were all sleeping in the hostel
when one of our students came into their
room in a confused state, saying they will
kill us, they will kill us.
When we heard this, everybody in the
hostel became confused.
There was
no light and we could not go out while we
don’t know where to go in the night. Some
of my colleagues decided to go into
security office to report what they had
seen.
When we were trying to come out from
our hostel, we saw many people with army
uniforms and immediately, they started
shooting us from different directions. They
killed many of my friends, but some of us
managed to escape through the window of
our room, I ran into the bush.”
Another survivor, who gave his name as
Sule, said he lost two of his brothers in the
attack. He lamented that the attack had
left everyone completely devastated and
has impacted negatively on their studies.
The Sani Abacha Specialist Hospital where
the wounded were taken to for treatment
and the remains of the dead were
deposited was a beehive of activities as
relations and sympathisers thronged the
place to see the spectacle left by the
attack.
A father of one of the victims, 18-year-old
Ahmadu, Alhaji Ado Adamu, described
what happened as barbaric and unIslamic.
