University student’s hands chopped off by thugs

On Sunday 7th April, 2019, suspected thugs chopped off two hands of a student of Usmanu Dan Fodio University, in Sokoto. The student whose hands were chopped off was identified as Habibu Abubakar, a 200-level student of the Department of Modern European Languages and Linguistics.

He was reportedly attacked by thugs who ambushed him at Mana area of the metropolis. The thugs then chopped off his two hands. Habibu Abubakar, is currently receiving treatment at the Orthopaedic Hospital in Wammako, Sokoto State.

The victim’s father, Abubakar Attahiru who confirmed the incident said that the perpetrator(s) of the act are yet to be identified. He stated that, “The assailants ambushed him around Mana area around 2 a.m. on Sunday, 7th April, 2019, snatched his motorcycle, cut off his hands and left him there lying in the pool of his blood. He added that “Habibu’s uncle was alerted immediately and he was rushed to Orthopaedic Hospital in Wammako for treatment.”

Some students of Usmanu Dan Fodio University, Sokoto who commented on the incidence on Monday 8th April, 2019 expressed shock at the incident.

According to one of his course mate who pleaded anonymity, “Habibu is a very gentle guy and jovial. He is my class rep but I don’t know the reason for the sad incident. He does not fight on campus. It must have been related to things even himself consider(s) worthless. It is sad to see him without hands again.”

  Another student commented by saying, “We are still very surprised with the news. Cutting the two hands is wickedness. The news became viral Monday and it been posted viral on Facebook,” he said. “The development did not speak well of Nigeria’s security system. Perhaps, he was wrong to have also walked in the midnight.”

According to the University’s Dean of Students Affairs, Aminu Mode, a professor said the only link between the incident and UDUS is the student, “since the ‘brutalisation’ did not happen within the institution”.

He stated that, “We heard about the incident from some students but all that happened did not happen in the school premises’” he said. “It just happened that the victim is a student of UDUS but it has no ‘bearing’ with USUS. It happened elsewhere, it is only linked to UDUS because the boy is a student of the University.”

The official also said “he is trying to get the full details of the victim to enable him properly inform the university.”

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