Student stabs teacher to death in Taraba

Bassey Sardauna, a secondary school teacher has been killed by students on Wednesday in Jalingo, Bayelsa state capital.

The murder of Sardauna has been confirmed by the Taraba State Command of the Nigerian Police Force.

According to the command’s spokesperson, Abdullahi Usman, the deceased was a staffer of the Model Secondary School, Jalingo.

He said the primary suspect, whom he described as an ex-student of the school, conspired with his friends in the school and stabbed the teacher, who was confirmed dead at the Federal Medical Centre, FMC, Jalingo, where he was taken for treatment.

Usman affirmed that the command has commenced an investigation into the case.

Continuing, he said that efforts are ongoing to apprehend every individual involved in the killing and urged anyone with useful information on their whereabouts to reach out to the command.

It was gathered that the attack on the deceased came following his recent decision to punish some students at the school. Those among the students who had been nursing ill feelings towards the teacher allegedly ambushed him on his way home.

A medical staff at the medical centre who also confirmed the incident said the teacher gave up the ghost a few hours after he was rushed to the hospital.

However, some of the staffers of the school confimed the incident while alleging that many of the students of the school have started exhibiting negative attitude especially students in the Senior Secondary School, urging the police to bring all the students involved to book.

The management of the Model Secondary School, Jalingo is yet to react to the ugly incident.