Students, Teachers Injured As Suspected Fulani Herdsmen Attack Oyo School [Video]

Suspected Fulani herdsmen have allegedly invaded one of the public secondary schools in Oyo State, injuring students and teachers.

According to Vanguard, the herdsmen invaded the Community Grammar School, Alaropo Nla in the Oriire Local Government Area of the state on Thursday morning.

An eyewitness was quoted as saying the headers, numbering over twenty, allegedly invaded the school with their cattle and injured some of the students and teachers.

Some of the students and their teachers, among whom are Mr Paul Olabode, were inflicted with sword and machete cuts, while many others were left with broken legs and hands.

The source disclosed that the school had just finished morning devotion and students were preparing to settle down in their classrooms to continue their second-term examination when the herdsmen invaded the school farm with their cows grazing mindlessly on crops.

Efforts made by the students and the teachers to drive away the herdsmen were met with brutal resistance.

The school principal, Mrs Grace Alamu, who confirmed the incident to Vanguard through a telephone call, said that the incident had been reported to the police.

“I am on my way to the school. Policemen are coming to the school this morning,” she said.

The Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, Adewale Osifeso could not confirm the invasion, as efforts made to reach proved abortive as of the time of filing this report.

Watch the video below:

KanyiDaily had also reported how gunmen suspected to be Fulani herdsmen killed three people at Adaka, a suburb of Makurdi, the Benue state capital.