Boko Haram cowards killed about 43 innocent students of the Federal Government College (FGC), Buni-Yadi in Gujba local government area of Yobe State on  Tuesday Feb. 25

The blood hounds, who avoid face-to-face combat with military forces, now attack soft targets in remote villages and schools, apparently to make good Nigerians sad.

A source told our correspondent that about 50 gunmen stormed the school, which is a few kilometres away from the state capital Damaturu, killing the students and injuring others.

The gunmen also set the school buildings, cars, classrooms and staff quarters on fire during the attack.

An eyewitness, Mallam Sani Yadi, told our correspondent that the gunmen entered the school around midnight and started shooting at the students and attacking whoever came out.

According to him, the attackers shot from different directions while calling on them to remain inside their hostels, with the intention of burning down the dormitories with the students alive.

He said, “They fired shots from different places and killed whoever attempted to escape. That was how they took several innocent lives.”

The state commissioner of police, Sanusi Rufai, also confirmed that 40 people were killed, adding that it was not immediately clear if all of the dead were students.

Rufai said that many of the students died in flames as the school was burned to the ground, adding that all the dead were males as no female student was touched.

The state governor, Ibrahim Geidam, during his visit to the scene of the incident, said that the attack was synonymous to last September’s assault on the College of Agriculture, Mamudo, where over 40 students were killed.

Geidam and his BornoState counterpart, Kashim Shettima, have fiercely criticised the military’s record in combatting Boko Haram in the region, insisting that more resources were needed to defeat increasingly well-armed insurgents in the troubled area.

Officials say female students at the co-ed school were spared — and that the attackers instead told them to go home and get married and to abandon their Western education.

The attackers set a locked dormitory on fire. As students escaped through the windows, they were shot and their throats were slit. Some were burned alive.

You’re deranged fanatics

— Jonathan tells Boko Haram

Meanwhile, President Jonathan has described members of the Boko Haram sect as “deranged terrorists and fanatics” who have become bereft of “human morality” and as such descended to bestiality” as characterised by their mindless killings of students in Yobe.

In a statement by his special adviser on media and publicity, Dr Reuben Abati, the president “wholly condemns the heinous, brutal and mindless killing of the guiltless students by deranged terrorists and fanatics who have clearly lost all human morality and descended to bestiality.

He assures the nation that his administration will not relent in its ongoing efforts to end the scourge of terrorism in parts of the country which has sadly claimed more innocent lives today.

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