Senior student slits junior student’s throat in Borno for refusing to run errands

The victim is responding to treatment but in critical condition.

A senior student of Elkanemi College of Islamic Theology in Borno has slit the throat of a junior student for refusing to run errands for him.

The Junior student, whose name is Jubril Mato has been admitted at the intensive care unit of the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital, but he his responding to treatment.

According to reports, Jubril was asked to run errands for the senior student but refused. Annoyed by Jubril’s behaviour, the senior student slit his throat multiple times with a razor blade.

“The senior colleague, from SS2 class, had sent Jubril on an errand, but he didn’t go,” a source said.

“That fateful night, he came to pick him up and took him to a quiet place where he used a razor blade to severely cut his neck, injuring most of his arteries, nerves and trachea.”

After the unfortunate incident, the senior student who felt no remorse for what he has done left Jubril for dead.

However, he managed to make it to the school principals office before he finally broke down and became unconscious.

According to the sources, the incident happened on Saturday 16 January but the school tried to conceal it. Although, the school management has concealed the name of the senior student who committed the act.

A staff of the school spoke to journalists and stated that this isn’t the first time they would experience such occurrence in the school, but the school management kept concealing the incidents.

“This is not the first case of armed violence in the college,” the teacher lamented

“There are several other cases relating to sexual abuse and armed violence, but the school management had swept it under the carpet. This is likely to mean we are creating more victims as a result of our failure to act.”