Boko Haram Sends Letter to Makurdi Government College, Threatens to Invade & Abduct Male Students

The Principal of Government College, Makurdi Benue State,
Godfrey Ugudu, on Saturday said the school has received
letters from Boko Haram sect threatening to attack the school.
Ugudu, who announced this at a news conference in Makurdi
today says the school received two letters which had the same
content on 14 May.
PM News reports:
"It is true that we saw two letters informing us of the intention
of the sect to invade our school on Friday or Monday by Boko
Haram. The letters were dated May 14, 2014, stating that they
were coming either of the two days to abduct our boys whom
they would marry to the secondary school girls abducted in
Chibok.
In the letter, we were asked to inform the Mount Saint Gabriel
Secondary School opposite us to also get prepared as they
promised to invade the place too.''
According to him:
"We immediately alerted the police and the Commissioner for
Education.
A report has been made to the Governor on the issue. The two
letters, which were written in pidgin English, were sighted
inside one of the classrooms and the second one was slipped
into the staff room."
The principal commended the government and security
operatives in the state for their prompt response to the issue.
He said that everything had been done to ensure the safety of
the school children, adding that he had informed the Principal
of Mount Saint Gabriel.
NAN reports that about 500 out of about 700 students of the
college are living in the school while Mount Saint Gabriel is
purely boarding school. The Police Public Relations Officer in
the state, Dan Ezeala, confirmed the report and assured that police were on top of the situation.