Two teachers were murdered when bandits stormed a secondary school in Plateau State’s Riyom Local Government Area.
According to the information obtained, the victims were a young married couple who worked as teachers at the BECO Comprehensive Secondary School in the LG’s Kwi neighborhood.
According to eyewitnesses, the event took place on Monday afternoon as instructors met to collate student test results in preparation for Friday’s “Speech and Prize-giving Day” at the school.
The deaths were verified by a youth leader in the neighborhood, Moses Gwott, to The PUNCH in Jos on Tuesday. He also claimed that the bandits injured several teachers, including the vice principal of the school.
Gwott said, “It was on Monday around 3pm that the bandits came into the school compound with their cattle, and interrupted the staff meeting. The staff had asked the bandits who were obviously Fulani to get their cows out of the school environment. But instead of complying, they brought out their arms and opened gunfire at the teachers killing two teachers.”
Rwang Tengwong, the national publicity secretary of the Berom Youths Moulders Association, confirmed the attack in a statement on Tuesday and urged the government to outlaw open grazing in the villages to prevent such incidents in the future.
“The Berom Youths Moulder-Association, is, again, saddened over the invasion of BECO Comprehensive School, Kwi, where two staff members, Mr and Mrs Rwang Danladi, were reportedly shot dead and one Mr Dalyop Emmanuel Ibrahim, the Vice Principal of the school seriously injured by some unknown Fulani armed men alongside suspected bandits at about 3 pm on Monday, August 14, 2023.
Under the direction of Solomon Dalyop Mwantiri, the Berom Youth Moulder-Association voiced worry about “how these terrorists from Fass and Mahanga now move freely with arms and graze on farmlands, intimidating locals at nearby communities.”
Alfred Alabo, the state’s police public relations officer, could not be reached for comment by phone.