Tension heightened Friday afternoon at the University of Ibadan
following the circulation of a letter purportedly written to all staff
by a Boko Haram group threatening to wreck monumental havoc through
ceaseless bombings of the institution, beginning from today, Saturday.
The
alleged offence of the institution was for being the first university
in the country that brought in and entrenched western education.
Reports
say both teaching and non-teaching staff were in panic mood as others
were discussing the messages which was now widely circulated within the
university community. No official reaction has been made on the mail.
It
was gathered that while some lecturers got the mail through their
institutional e-mail addresses, others were copied through social
platforms such as WhatsApp.
In the alleged mail, the group
“al-wilayat al-Islamiyya Gharb Afriqiyyah” described University of
Ibadan as an embarrassment to Nigeria for bringing western education.
Security
has been strengthened at the university gates with scanning and ‘stop
and search’ operation was being carried out leading to many resuming
work very late as they spent more than an hour at the gate while traffic
snarl was witnessed owing to the security screening.
While saying
that UI doomed the nation , the purported letter threatened to begin
detonation on the campus adding that most staff and students were going
to die before independence day.
“You people are an embarrassment
to Nigeria and are the people that brought in western education to
Nigeria. You doomed this nation and in turn you all are going to be
doomed”, part of the statment read.
Most of you are going to die
before Independence day. You will not spend the independence day in
peace, you and your students. Detonation will start g from tomorrow till
independence day and there is nothing you can do as we are among you.
Even your little searches at the gate won’t do anything. By the time we
are through with you, your government will be sorry” the terrifying
message stated.
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