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One Year Ago, School Students Were Gruesomely Murdered By B’Haram, Mostly Boys, We Remember Them Today #BuniYadi
by Deji Abiodun
Today Nigerians remember the Buni Yadi boys gruesomely murdered by Boko Haram while they slept in their boarding school in Yobe state, north-east Nigeria.
Islamist group Boko Haram shot or burned to death 59 pupils overnight, though there’s been conflicting reports over the deaths, other accounts say it was 29 but students were killed for daring to school and we remember them. “Some of the students’ bodies were burned to ashes,” Police Commissioner Sanusi Rufai said of the attack on the Federal Government college of Buni Yadi, a secondary school in Yobe state, near the state’s capital city of Damaturu.
NewsWireNGR recalls that Yobe state was attacked overnight a year ago when students were in their dormitories and all the victims were teenage boys and 11 others were seriously injured. Most of the school was burned to the ground.
Nigeria’s Former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar has called for Justice over the killing of the School boys by terrorists. In a series of tweets, Atiku said, The #BuniYadi59 boys were killed for daring to be educated. They are the real heroes of education.
— Atiku Abubakar (@atiku) February 25, 2015
Unknown to most Nigerians, some of the #BuniYadi students were taken away by the terrorists, and their whereabouts remain unknown.
— Atiku Abubakar (@atiku) February 25, 2015 We remain hopeful that the #BuniYadi boys, #ChibokGirls and all young people who have been abducted by terrorists will return home.
— Atiku Abubakar (@atiku) February 25, 2015 Teachers at the school in Buni Yadi said the gunmen gathered the female students together before telling them to go away and get married and to abandon their education. About 29 of the students were butcher to death.
“It is unfortunate that up to five hours when this massacre took place, there were no security agents around to stop or contain the situation,” Yobe State Governor Ibrahim Gaidam had said in a statement.
Remembering the Nigerian boys whose lives were wasted at Buni Yadi ????
— J|#BringBackOurGirls (@omojuwa) February 25, 2015 #buniyadi is now trending in #Lagos http://t.co/9eHSryH8Ju
— Trendsmap Lagos (@TrendsLagos) February 25, 2015 It is a year today that 59 school boys were ruthlessly murdered at FGC Buni Yadi. We mourn them today and pray for the end of this mayhem.
— Maryam Abubakar (@mareeyama) February 25, 2015 ...and one year since the inhuman murder of 59 young students of Federal Government College, Buni Yadi. Innocent children. Guilty nation.
— 'Gbénga Sèsan (@gbengasesan) February 25, 2015
