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Bombing
By Olayinka Olawale
Lagos, Jan. 16, 2017 (NAN)The National Parents Teachers Association of Nigeria (NAPTAN) on Monday condemned the bombing at a Mosque in the University of Maiduguri by the Boko Haram sect.
Mr Adeolu Ogunbanjo, Second Deputy President of the association told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos that there was need for urgent deployment of security personnel to institutions.
He said that deployment of armed security personnel would enhance safety and stem the tide of attacks on such institutions.
NAN reports that a twin bomb-blast from suicide bombers killed no fewer than five persons in the University of Maiduguri, Borno State, during early morning prayers, around 5: am.
The Commissioner of Police, Mr Damian Chukwu, told newsmen in Maiduguri that 15 persons who sustained various degrees of injuries were rushed to hospital.
“At about 5:45 a.m. a mobile police officer who was on duty sighted a suicide bomber who was trying to scale the fence at Gate Five of the university.
” Suspicious of his movement, the mobile police officer instantly gunned him down and his bomb exploded and killed him instantly.
“The second suicide bomber, a seven year-old, detonated the second explosive at the senior staff quarters mosque in the university where a professor and four persons were killed and 15 persons sustained various degrees of injuries and were rushed to the hospital,” Chukwu had said.
Ogunbanjo urged the Federal Government to tidy up security in and around primary, secondary and tertiary institutions in the country.
“The situation is unfortunate; there is too much kidnapping, bombing and all sorts of evil acts in the country.
“I am begging the Federal Government to please do something to secure our institutions.
“Tertiary institutions and schools have become soft targets because there are no armed security personnel guarding them.
“Government should tidy up security very well in such institutions,“ he said. (NAN)
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Edited by Oluwole Sogunle