Not 40, 62 were Killed By The Armed Men In Mubi: Survivor
One of the survivors of the October 1
attack on students of Federal Polytechnic, Mubi, Miss Serah James, has
said she is still being haunted by the horrors that befell students of
the institution.
James, who spoke to our correspondent in
an interview while on transit in Jos on Sunday, said she was afraid to
go back to Mubi because she was still being haunted by the mafia-like
style the students were attacked and killed.
James recalled that prior to the attack,
the town was on curfew because soldiers were conducting a
house-to-house search for arms.
With this development, she said the students had thought they were safe until the mayhem of that Monday.
She said, “Before the attack, the town
was under curfew for about 72 hours and we were relaxed that at least
with the presence of soldiers we were safe. They were searching for arms
and in any house where they discovered such, they would arrest the
occupants.
“Then the mayhem started in the early
hours of Monday. They went to the hostel where some students were living
off campus and started calling the names of the students one by one and
shooting them as they were identified. They killed mostly those with
Christian names.”
She said though she lived near the
students’ hostel, she escaped only by a whisker, adding, “The whole
neighbourhood was jolted and horrified by the boom of gunshots that
shattered the silence of the night.”
James, who said she went to Mubi to pack
her belongings to Abuja, refused to allow her pictures published
because the killers were still on the prowl.
While disputing the casualty figure
given by the security agents, James said, “On the first day, 40 people
were killed and another 22 died the following day either from the
gunshots or out of fright.”
She said that although there was a
students’ union election on September 29, the killings, according to
her, was not a fallout of the election as was being speculated.
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