Over 150 Benue State indigenes, schooling in Adamawa State University,
Mubi, are missing, The PUNCH reports.
Seventeen out of the over 200 of the students were rescued and
conveyed to Makurdi, the state capital on Friday night.
The distressed students, who spoke to PUNCH correspondent on Friday
might at the Makurdi State Government House, where they were lodged,
said they escaped the attack on Mubi through "divine intervention".
One of them, who identified himself as Terna, a 200 Level Business
Administration student, said they spent two nights in the bush while
trying to find their way to Maiha Local Government Area, the closest
area to Mubi.
According to him, the fleeing students were in company with some
military officers, who were also on the run during the escape to
Maiha.
He said, "Only God knows how many kilometers we walked through the
bush and mountains in two days.
"We had to leave some of our school mates in Katsina Ala Local
Government Area for treatment while some of us were brought in here."
While appreciating the state government, he appealled to the state
government that a search party be constituted to get the other missing
students.
He said, "Frankly speaking, we are over 200 from Benue State in that
university and as you can see, we are just 17 here with few other weak
ones in the hospital receiving treatment and I appeal that a search
party be urgently instituted to know the whereabouts of the others."
--PUNCH
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