Soldiers Withdrew From Check-Point Hours Before Yobe School Attack

As the nation mourns the recent Boko haram attack in Yobe which has claimed many young lives, Nasir el rufai reposted an article from a news site suggesting that the Nigerian army mysteriously withdrew from their position near the area a couple of hours before the attack.

The article quotes Yobe State governor Ibrahim Gaidam as the one revealing these allegations, It goes:

The governor of Yobe State, Ibrahim Gaidam has disclosed that Soldiers guarding a checkpoint near the Federal government College Buni Yadi, were gunmen suspected to be Boko Haram members laid siege in the early hours of Tuesday were mysteriously withdrawn hours before the attack.

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The governor who spoke through his spokesman, Abdullahi Bego said survivors and community leaders told Gov. Ibrahim Gaidam when he visited the now-deserted and destroyed secondary school 70 kilometers south of the state capital, Damaturu.

“The community complained to the governor that yesterday the military were withdrawn and then the attack happened,” he said.

Despite the fact that the nearest military base was a unit of about 30 soldiers in Buni Gari town, 2 kilometers away from the school, the community leaders of Buni Yadi said soldiers from Damaturu did not arrive until noon, hours after the attackers had finished their work and taken off.

According Bego, the community leaders said they buried the bodies of 29 victims. Most appeared to be between 15 and 20 years old.

Female students were spared in the attack