Bassy Sardauna, a secondary school teacher in Jalingo, was assassinated by pupils on Wednesday, according to the Nigerian Police Force’s Taraba State Command.
The dead was a staff member of Model Secondary School in Jalingo, according to the command’s spokesperson, Abdullahi Usman, who confirmed the event on Thursday.
Usman stated that the principal suspect, whom he identified as a former pupil of the institution, planned with his companions to stab the instructor, who was subsequently declared deceased at the Federal Medical Centre, FMC, Jalingo, where he was receiving medical attention.
Usman confirmed that the command had started looking into the matter.
The police PRO added that all of the students engaged in the killing are still being sought after and asked anyone with pertinent information about their locations to get in contact with the command.
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It was learned that the deceased’s decision to discipline some of the school’s kids had preceded the attack. On his way home, the teacher was allegedly accosted by pupils who harboured animosity towards him.
A few hours after being taken to the hospital, the teacher passed away, according to medical personnel at the medical centre, who also attested to the incident.
The workers at the school who verified the occurrence claimed that some students’ hostile attitudes, especially those of those in senior courses, are getting intolerable, even though the school administrators could not be reached at the time this report was filed.
They asked the police to file charges against every student engaged.
Eyewitnesses narrate how one of their teachers was stabbed by a student who came to seek admission at Government Day Secondary School model Jalingo.
The said teacher was a house master who stopped the allerged admission seeker from passing through his house after all preparations for the house inspection were done.
Things didn’t go well with the admission seeker; he went back home and brought thugs for the teacher and threatened to stab the teacher since it was morning, but some students intervened, so they waited for the teacher and succeeded in stabbing him.
The first question that I asked my siblings was, What security measures did the school authority take when the said admission seeker came back with thugs? It’s quite unfortunate that the said teacher lost his life this evening.
May God guide and protect all teachers. Please, we should be extra careful how we handle these students. Most of them are not normal; they are hooked on drugs; they belong to one association or another. May his soul rest in peace.
