Missing girls: How principal saved students from Boko Haram massacre

Providence appears to have prevented a possible massacre at the Government Girls Science Technical College, Dapchi, Yobe State, when suspected terrorists of Boko Haram struck at the institution on Monday, reports said yesterday.

A split second decision by the principal of the school did the magic.

Highly placed sources told The Nation that as soon as the principal heard the sound of a gunshot, he instinctively suspected that danger was lurking around.

He quickly ordered the students -926 of them –home, remembering perhaps, the killing of 29 students of the Federal Government College, Buni Yadi also in Yobe State by Boko Haram on February 24, 2014.

The gunmen struck at about 7pm.

The Nation, February 24, 2018

 

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