The dreaded Islamic sect wrecking havic in the North, Boko Haram has denied k**lling about 40 students in Mubi, Adamawa State.
“We have no business with students or student politics. If students are our target we would have k**lled them randomly on sight and in their school and not sneak on them in the creeping darkness in an area occupied by both students and residents.”
A man, who claimed to be a senior member of the Islamic sect, told Premium Times on Tuesday that his group had nothing to do with the k**llings. He said if the sect wanted to attack educational facilities, it would have gone for structures and not students.
The Boko Haram man said, “What would have been our target as far as I am concerned would have been the building and property of the institution, since it is owned by the government. At least, by now other students elsewhere would have been attacked if students are our concern.”
He said the mode of attack was not characteristic of the sect’s numerous attacks.
“Several statements by our spokesman and Imam in the past have made it clear who our enemies are. I don’t have to repeat it here. I don’t think anybody among us has the time to draw up a list or read it out before executing the students.”
The group’s denial throws another controversy into the likely perpetrators of the dastardly act. Some of the murdered students were shot while others were slaughtered. Security agencies are already investigating the criminal act.
It would be recalled that Gunmen had last week invaded the Federal Polytechnic, Mubi and the state university located in the town and k**lled 40 of the students in a gruesome attack.
