Afrigather Leaders of the Nationwide Union of Bauchi State College students (NUBASS) and the College students Union Authorities (SUG) of the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa College (ATBU) met with the Bauchi State Commissioner of Police, Auwal Musa Mohammed, on Wednesday to request elevated safety presence inside their communities.
The go to got here in response to a latest incident on December 2nd, the place unknown people robbed a feminine pupil, Philomena Ahobe, of her cell phone. Her boyfriend, Agbaidu Joseph, an ATBU pupil, tried to intervene however was tragically stabbed by the assailants.
Whereas condemning the violent protest following the incident, the coed leaders counseled the Commissioner for his swift response in containing the state of affairs. They offered a letter formally requesting enhanced safety measures of their surrounding areas.
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Commissioner Mohammed assured the scholars that the police would deploy extra personnel to make sure their security and shield their property. He emphasised the core duty of the police to guard residents and underlined that extreme power is just not the one answer to battle decision.
“Proper can’t be fought by violence, however by reconciliation,” he said.
Whereas comprehensible in its outrage, he acknowledged that the preliminary pupil protest was finally misguided and offered a possibility for opportunistic people to take advantage of the state of affairs and switch it violent.
Commissioner Mohammed pledged to apprehend the perpetrators of the assault on Joseph and vowed to ship justice. He reassured the scholars that their security and well-being stay a prime precedence for the police.
