There
are reports from Maiduguri, the Borno state capital that three staff of
the West African Examination Council, WAEC were on Friday shot dead by
unknown gunmen suspected to be members of the Islamic Militants, Boko
Haram.
A staff of WAEC board in Maiduguri, who did want his name in print
said, their staff were attacked yesterday while returning from Biu after
conducting examination in the local government.
His words “from what we heard, the gunmen stopped the vehicle, and on
realising they were government officials, brought them out and killed
them.”
He said that their corpses have been brought to Maiduguri, awaiting
further instructions from the board, before they are released to the
affected families.
He said the gunmen took away the Hilux vehicle, with students exams script collected from the exam centre in Biu.