BOKO HARAM: OUR NEXT ABDUCTION TARGET ARE TWO SCHOOLS IN BENUE...(READ).

The Principal of Government College, Makurdi, Mr
Godfrey Ugudu, on Saturday said the school had
received letter from Boko Haram sect threatening to
attack the school.
Ugudu, who announced this at a news conference in
Makurdi on Saturday, added that the school received
two letters which had the same content on May 14.
“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’’, he said.
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.
Reports said that about 500 out of about 700 students
of the college are living in the school while Mount Saint
Gabriel is purely boarding school.