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Bayelsa, Jigawa, Rivers evacuate students from ABU over Insecurity

Posted: 25-Jun-2012 [09:51:45] into Events by samral for abu | 5 Comments

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Eighty students of Ahmadu Bello University were evacuated from the school in Zaria by their states following recent crisis that rocked parts of Kaduna State without the knowledge of the university authority, the institution’s vice chancellor, Professor Abdullahi Mustapha, raised the alarm yesterday.
A statement by VC’s media consultant Waziru Isa Gwantu said Rivers and Jigawa states “whisked away 80 students of the university in suspicious manner” and the institution had already alerted the federal government of the development, as the university’s authorities were not contacted before the students were “smuggled out”.

“Rivers and Jigawa State governments have whisked away 80 students of our university in a suspicious manner on Friday and Saturday, June 22 and 23. Four buses belonging to the Jigawa State government with armed mobile police escort forced their way into the Kongo campus of the university where the state’s students numbering 50 were whisked away.

“The Rivers State government, too, on Saturday committed a similar trespass and illegally evacuated students from the state in a 40-seater bus. The bus was also escorted by armed mobile policemen. Neither of the governments of these states consulted the Kaduna State governor, who is the chief security officer of the state or the authorities of the university before evacuating the students. This was why the university management alerted the federal government of this development,” it said.

When contacted, Rivers State Governor Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi’s spokesman David Iyofor said he would get back to our correspondent later because he needed to get certain things clear before making comments.

In its response, the Jigawa State Education Commissioner, Professor Haruna Wakili, said it was wrong for ABU authorities to go to press over the issue of the evacuation of its students from the school. Professor Wakili said the right thing for the institution to do was to contact the state government over the matter, adding that the state government did not call a press conference when they evacuated the students for security reasons.

In a related development, Governor Henry Seriake joystickson of Bayelsa State has ordered the immediate evacuation of students of the state’s origin from trouble zones in the country.

The decision, according to him stemmed from the incessant attacks by militants suspected to be Boko Haram on innocent citizens in some parts of the northern states.

In a statement released by his spokesman, Daniel Iworiso yesterday in Yenagoa, the governor said the action was meant to safeguard the lives of its indigenes from the persistent activities of terrorism in the north, especially as witnessed in Kaduna and Yobe in the past one week.

While praying for peace to return to the area, a team including officials from the state’s ministry of Education had already been dispatched to Kaduna state with a mandate to bring back home safely students of Bayelsa origin from the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria.

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Site Comments on this Information (5)
25-Jun-2012 13:59:55,
Titus15 says;
Hmmmmmm,dis is a gud measure by d two statex gov't and @ dsame tym, a bad 1.a gud in d sense dat they did it in other to safe gaurd lives of their 'indigenes' as said by Bayelsa state govenor. And a bad 1 bcos taking such decision without a wide consultation shows dat dis states are just being sentimental and it also shows dat such people cannot do anything reasonable stop the security challenges the country is facing if they are to be on Mr president's shoe.


25-Jun-2012 14:05:54,
Titus15 says;
I think the best thing to do is to mount presure on federal government not evacuating their indigenes from the school.


25-Jun-2012 18:52:03,
ifexladon says;
evacuating students doesn't mean anytin,d best thing.is 2 make FG b aware of diz issue of boko-haram/inadequate security


25-Jun-2012 22:26:17,
dexpotter says;
D 2 state ve done dere best 4 their citizens n i love dat. It shows d govt has d student in mind. D fG has done ntin 2 stp d boko haram so every1 shud keep his/her self save until we all are safe through breakup or any related solution cos d muslim war has no end


06-Jul-2012 18:09:14,
aniekan udoeden says;
what are dr standard now. Is d governor going 2 give them admition?




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