The widow of the slain vice principal of Government Girls Comprehensive Senior Secondary School, Maga, recounts how her daughter narrowly escaped armed bandits who killed her husband and abducted 25 schoolgirls during a pre-dawn attack in Kebbi State.
Mrs. Amina Hassan, widow of the vice principal killed in Monday’s bandit attack on Government Girls Comprehensive Senior Secondary School, Maga, has narrated how her daughter narrowly escaped being taken alongside the 25 abducted schoolgirls.
She said the attackers broke into their home around 3:30 a.m., initially mistaking the sounds for “animals destroying our things,” until the door was forced open and the armed men shot her husband after a struggle.
Dragged outside and ordered to follow the bandits, she resisted, saying, “I would not go with them since they had killed the father of my children.”
Her daughter then emerged, drawing the gunmen’s attention; they told the girl to lie down so they could shoot her, to which she replied, “‘I should lay down so you can shoot me?’”
The girl cleverly asked to ease herself first, and when the attackers became distracted by other girls, she fled into the bush and returned home at daybreak.