By our reporter 18.11.2025
The wife of the murdered vice principal of Government Girls’ Comprehensive Secondary School Maga in Kebbi State, Amina Hassan said her husband was mercilessly gunned down after the bandits allowed him to say his last prayer.
Speaking during an interview with DW, Amina Hassan narrated how the heavily armed bandits invaded the school at about 4.00am Monday and carted away 25 girls.
“We were sleeping around 3:30 am when I heard the footsteps of the armed men around the house and school hostel and I wake my husband that cows are invading our farms, in the process of waking him up from sleep I heard our door open, I notice it was human being with guns and on Army camouflage uniform,” said Hassan.
“They threatened to kill my husband if he did anything strange. My husband pleaded that they should allow him to pray before they executed him, they allowed him and he was shot after saying his last prayer. When I try to go close to his body, they threatened to kill me too if I dared to go near my husband.”
“Then they asked me to follow them and I refused; I told them after killing my husband they wanted to take me away. I will not follow them; they asked the kids to go inside and lay down.
“After the whole thing when they left the scene I and I attempted to leave the house with the kids. I noticed they were all around the house and the school hostels. They surrounded the whole place.”
Hassan said the men were dressed in army camouflage and spoke in Fulani language. Three were inside the hostel while the rest remained outside, and she noted that their voices indicated they could be Fulani.
“They were wearing army camouflage uniforms, and they were all young men. Three of them scouted the hostel while the rest were outside the building. And from their voices when I heard them speaking one could indicate they are Fulanis.”