A
female Senior Secondary (SS1) student of the Federal Government Girls College
(FGGC), Jalingo was on Monday apprehended for being in possession of two
grenades.
The
school’s security guards, who were conducting checks on the students’ luggage
following their resumption for the second term, apprehended the student, simply
identified as Blessing.
In
an attempt to smuggle the bombs into the school, Blessing, an SS1 student, who
joined the school last September, concealed the bombs inside garri and it took
the vigilance of the security men to detect them.
Upon
the discovery, she was quickly arrested alongside her father, who is said to be
a retired Police Inspector from Numan in Adamawa State, while the bomb disposal
unit at the police headquarters was quickly called in to detonate the bombs.
The
development threw the entire school into pandemonium as staff and students ran
for cover when the news of the incident went round the school and it took great
effort from the school authorities to restore normalcy to the school.
Confirming
the incident, the state's Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), ASP Joseph
Kwaji, said both the girl and her father were being detained, while
investigation is ongoing on the matter.
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