By: Anonymous Student
February 4th 2018 is a date no student of Modibbo Adama University of Technology Yola (formerly Federal University of Technology) will forget in a hurry.
February 4th 2018 is a date no student of Modibbo Adama University of Technology Yola (formerly Federal University of Technology) will forget in a hurry.
It is worth stating that on the 29th of January 2018, SUG
elections took place and Christians (or at least non-muslims) won all the posts
except one: the post of Director of Socials. As pathetic as it sounds,
elections in my school are based on religion; both Christians and Muslims are
told who to vote in their respective churches and mosques.
It was claimed that during an online engagement about two
weeks ago, a 'Christian boy' supposedly insulted the Prophet Muhammad. They
(Muslim students) had demanded that the boy be expelled (a senate meeting was
held to this effect), but the Vice Chancellor of the school insisted that the
school had no business in online dabbles. The said provoker had been in hiding
for weeks as there were open threats to his life. The claims on the media are
that only the latter (insult to the Prophet) caused the unrest, I do not agree
with these claims having witnessed it first-hand. I think information was withheld deliberately
to avoid fueling an already volatile situation, considering how seriously they
take insults to the prophet.
By 6pm of the 4th of February, I was in my hostel (Nana Asmau hostel) trying to
nap before I go to read, when I heard screaming, running into rooms and
shutting of doors with such force the whole building (two storeys of solid
concrete) shook. At first I assumed it was one of those nonsense tantrums that
was common with girls in my hostel, but when the noise persisted, I rushed out
to assess things for myself. That's when chants of "Allahu Akbar"
reached us. We (myself and other 'brave' students) rushed to the front of our
hostel and saw quite a number of people carrying clubs and machetes marching as
they shouted. From where we stood in front of the hostel we heard they went
into one of our lecture theatres (LT 1&2) where Christian fellowship was
holding, stoned 'worshippers' and dragged one boy out. The boy was said to
beaten to stupor with blood oozing and his legs broken. They set ablaze
instruments worth millions of naira in the lecture theatre store, the fire
eventually escalated and engulfed the entire building. Lecture theatres 5&6
(SMIT LT) were also vandalised.
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Burnt Lecture Theater |
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Musical Instruments |
By 8:00pm same day after nearly two hours of unrest and
panicking, we still didn't see a single security agent insight. As a matter of
fact, the one previously stationed in our hostel ran away. We watched from afar
as fire burned surrounding building. When the Muslim youths were matching past
our hostel around 8:15pm, one girl said something insulting to them and they
started stoning at us. Glasses were broken, our windows shattered, some people
were seriously wounded and we had to shut the hostel from within.
A mosque was also vandalized, and there were two versions of
the story. One version alleged that the Imam presiding over Oba Adetona mosque
tried to prevent them(the Muslim students) from rioting but they started
stoning at the mosque and broke windows (I should add that I heard this from a
Muslim). The other version had it that the Christian students carried out
reprisal attacks.
Around 9:30pm or thereabouts same day, military presence was
finally noticed, but rumours had it that they hadn't received permission to
act, so the vandalism continued. The rioting Muslim students then went to the
mosque to regroup (allegedly).
By 2:00am of the 5th
February, they continued to vandalize. Dozens of students were stabbed and one
of the school security was allegedly hospitalized. .
By 6:00am the following morning being 5th of February, when we got up to go round
and assess the damage, we were told to our faces by some Muslim students that
'this' was just the beginning. Myself and other passers-by were called 'arne'
which is a Hausa word for infidel (basically any non-muslim). They kept trying
to start another riot and kept walking around with clubs.
Currently, the school has been shut down indefinitely and all
students forced to leave before 2pm of the 5th of Febuary. Tensions are still very high.
As long as there are no programs to de-indoctrinate students and the campuses; as long as Nigerian students are taught not to appreciate and cultivate critical thinking and other secular values, this destructive trend will continue. The atheist society should rise up to the challenge of secularizing the Nigerian campuses.....
ReplyDeleteSince it is clear that (Thank God), we will all have different viewpoints and different experiences within them, can we at least agree that by me having my views that I certainly cannot take anything away from you, so please do not try and take anything away from me?https://www.eyeofthepsychic.com/
ReplyDeleteWhen the Roman Catholic Church went bad in the dark ages,rudrabhishekam anyone who did not follow their way of religion was tormented or burned at the stake. The Muslims have advanced their religion by killing anyone who refused to convert to Islam.
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