SECURITY agents, last week, arrested and detained 26 final-year students
of King Faisal University of Chad in Yola, Adamawa State, on suspicion
of belonging to the dreaded Boko Haram sect, Nigerian Tribune was
reliably informed.
The students, who were mostly from
South-Western Nigeria, were said to be going back to Chad and were
passing through Adamawa State when they were stopped and arrested by
security operatives who suspected they were going to Chad for Jihadist
training.
Nigerian Tribune was told that the students were
allegedly quizzed for several days and locked up in a cell in Yola while
the investigators from the security services checked through their
papers. It was gathered that efforts by relatives of the students who
were alerted by one of the students before his phone was seized proved
abortive, as reports indicated that the Joint Task Force in the state
was almost taking over the matter.
After about five days in
detention, Nigerian Tribune was told that the authorities of the
university and its affiliates in Nigeria, Imam Malik College, got wind
of the matter and despatched a team to Yola to identify the students,
and secure their release.
Latest reports, however, indicated
that the students had been released based on the intervention of the
university and were now on their way to Chad.
It will be
recalled that many Nigerian students at the Faisal University normally
have their three year university training at the Imam Malik College
before proceding to Chad for their 400-level courses and graduation.
TRIBUNE
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