A senior student of Elkanemi College of Islamic Theology Maiduguri (name withheld) slit the throat of an 11-year-old junior student of the Islamic theology college, identified as Jubril Mato for refusal to run errand.
According to a source from school, it was said that: “The senior colleague, from SS2 class, had sent Jubril on an errand, but he didn’t go. That fateful night, he came to pick him up and took him to a quiet place where he used a razor blade to severely cut his neck, injuring most of his arteries, nerves and trachea,”
The Senior student, left the victim for dead with his body soaked in blood. After some minutes, the 11-year-old boy struggled to the Principal’s Office, before he finally broke down and became unconscious.
Jubril was then rushed to the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital and was laid in a critical state at the Intensive Care Unit.
It was said that the senior student, is to be indoctrinated on psychotropic substances was subsequently arrested and handed over to the police for further investigations.
The incident, occurred on Saturday 16 January 2022, inside the school premises, but the school management concealed it by keeping it away from the public.
11-year-old Jubril, is said to be the son of Late Justice Sadi Mato of Federal High Court Kano State, and his mother, Hajiya Aisha, remarried a Senior civil servant with the Yobe State government.
Jubril’s stepfather, who was called by the school management shortly after the incident, has been discouraging the victim and his mother from reporting the attack.
A staff of the school said: “This is not the first case of armed violence in the college. There are several other cases relating to sexual abuse and armed violence, but the school management had swept it under the carpet. This is likely to mean we are creating more victims as a result of our failure to act”.