JUST IN: POLICE REVEALS HOW SLAIN 500L ATBU STUDENT WAS STABBED
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According to the Bauchi State Police Command, the 500-level Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University geology student who was stabbed and subsequently died in the hospital was attempting to get his girlfriend’s handbag back from the attackers at the time of the event.
According to numerous sources on campus, final-year Geology student Joseph Agabaidu was attacked by some attackers while they attempted to take his cell phone, as reported in an online publication.
Agabaidu, who is based in Benue State but is originally from Kogi State’s Ankpa Local Government Area, is reportedly the oldest of his family’s four children to attend ATBU.
He was reportedly attacked at around 7:00 p.m. on Saturday while making his way back to his lodge near the Yelwan Tudu market in the Yelwa region, a suburb of Bauchi city. He was taken to the hospital for emergency care but was unable to survive the knife’s serious wounds.
Students at the school staged a protest in response to the incident, gathering in large numbers at the Yelwa Campus to voice their displeasure with the insufficient security on and around campus and to draw attention from the administration and government.
Following the demonstration, the administration ordered students to leave the campus right away and closed the school due to the disruption of the peaceful atmosphere on campus caused by the protest organised by “miscreants,” according to a statement signed by the Deputy Registrar Academic, Fatima Abdullahi.
However, the police said in a statement signed by Ahmed Wakil, their public relations officer, and provided to the media on Wednesday that the deceased was with his girlfriend when the attackers—whose identity and phone number are still unidentified—snatched her handbag, which contained her cell phone.
Wakil continued, saying that the deceased was stabbed on the side of his chest when he attempted to get his girlfriend’s bag, and that he subsequently passed away while being admitted to the ATBU Teaching Hospital.
He said: “Commissioner of Police Bauchi State Command, CP Auwal Mohammed received in the audience the leadership of two student bodies (NUBAS and SUG ) in his office at the State Command Headquarters.
“Their visits were prompted by the recent incident which occurred on 2nd December 2023 where some unknown persons, numbers not ascertained, snatched a handbag containing a mobile phone belonging to a lady, one Philomena Ahobee (28), a student of Abubakar Tatari Polytechnic, Bauchi.
Because of this, her boyfriend, 28-year-old Agbaidu Joseph of Anguwan Ngas, a student at Bauchi’s Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University, attempted to assist her in getting the handbag holding the phone. He was wounded with a sharp knife on the left side of his chest by the attacker(s).
“A doctor declared the victim dead while he was being admitted to the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa Teaching Hospital in Bauchi, despite the fact that he was brought there for treatment.”
According to the PPRO, during the CP’s speech, the student union leadership denounced the “violent protest by some erring students of the university” and praised the CP for acting quickly to stop the “violent protesters.”
He said that the student leaders presented a letter of request to the Commissioner of Police soliciting more security presence around their communities and “in his response, the Commissioner of Police began by observing a minute of silence in honor of the deceased.”
Wakil stated that upon receiving the letter, the CP gave them the assurance that the command’s operational and intelligence resources would be sent to the impacted areas. The CP also directed the posting of additional staff and patrol vans to provide a constant, visible patrol of the area.
“The Commissioner of Police reiterated that the basic obligation of the police is to protect the lives and properties of the citizens, excessive use of force to quench violence is not the only last available option to a police officer in matters of conflict and crisis resolution.
“He said that in the process of policing society, certain ‘unavoidable problems’ come to the fore, saying that even at such, there is a need for utmost demonstration of professionalism,” he said.
He quoted the police boss as saying: “Right cannot be fought through violence but by way of reconciliation.”
He argued that the students’ actions as legislators on a matter that should only be handled by universities and other relevant parties were inappropriate, “creating a vacuum for unscrupulous persons to hijack the protest and turn it into a violent one, leading to a confrontation with the school authority.”
“The Commissioner of Police, CP Auwal Muhammed, assured that efforts are being intensified to apprehend the culprit(s) that perpetrated the inhumane dastardly act on the deceased and further assured that justice will be served unfailingly,” he said.
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