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| Nigeria attack: Arrests over Mubi students' killings |
| 2012-10-04 |
| [BBC] Nigerian police say they have made many arrests following the killing of at least 26 people at a college hostel in the north-eastern town of Mubi. Most victims were students called out by name by the gunnies, police said. The attackers went from door-to-door, shooting or stabbing. It is unclear who is responsible. Some suspect the Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... bully boy group, while police sources are linking it to a student union election, which was contested on sectarian lines. BBC Hausa service editor Mansur Liman says the newly elected leader of the student union at the Federal Polytechnic Mubi was among those reported to have been killed. Rivalry between different groups of students, sometimes influenced by national politics, religion and ethnicity, is not a new phenomenon in Nigeria's higher educational institutions; however, this would be the first time it has reached such a level of violence, he says. Leadership positions on campuses can be a stepping stone for a future career in national politics, which many in Nigeria see as a licence to get rich quickly, he adds. |
| Posted by:Fred |