“We Could Have Averted Killing of 30 Students if…” Gov. Geidam

Governor Ibrahim Geidam of Yobe State Wednesday said the reported killing of 32 persons, mostly students on July 6, at a secondary school in the state could have been averted had the telecommunications services to the state not shutdown, after the imposition of  emergency rule in the state.

The governor, who had been at the centre of agitation for the restoration of the GSM service to the state, said the people of the state were always willing to assist security agencies to arrest the criminal elements in the state but were handicapped by the shutdown of telecommunication services.

Geidam, who stated this Wednesday, when a team from the Defence Headquarters, led by the

Chief of Research and Development (DHQ), Major General Collins Ariahu, visited the state to assess the attack on GSS Mamudo paid a courtesy call on him at the Government House, Damaturu.

The Governor said the people of the state have been cooperating with the JTF in helping to provide useful intelligence but lack of GSM service is preventing them from doing so.