Godfrey Ugudu, the headteacher of the Government College has raised an alarm over letters received allegedly from the Boko Haram sect threatening to abduct the male students of the school within 48 hours.
The letter is suspected to be a hoax because it goes on to say that the abducted male students would be married to the girls abducted from Chibok last month.
Ugudu said “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.”
He added, “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.”
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.