You’re late, slain Yobe FGC students’ parents tell FG. BY KAYODE IDOWU- Punchng.com

The parents of the slain students of Federal Government College, Buni Yadi, Yobe State, on Tuesday told a Federal Government delegation that the government was one year late. Boko Haram sect attacked FGC, Buni Yadi, on February 24, 2014, killing 29 students in the school in a night raid. At the meeting with the Federal Government delegation at GAAT Hotel, Damaturu, were some parents of the slain students, the Parents Teachers Association Chairman of the college, Alhaji Kati Machina, representative of FGC’s Principal and some journalists. The delegation was led by the Minister of Science and Technology, Dr. Abdul Bulama. Speaking on behalf of the bereaved parents, Machina, who expressing the grievances of the parents, told the delegation they were one year late. He noted that the Federal Government was expected to be at the forefront of bringing relief to the school as FGC, Buni Yadi, is a unity school. He added, “If the governor of the state can leave whatever he was doing to visit the school a day after it was attacked early last year, I expect that because of the distance from Abuja, they would have been in that school in a week or two. Read More