The visit of Yobe State Governor, Ibrahim Gaidam, to Dapchi turned messy as officials were injured and seven vehicles damaged following pelting of his convoy with stones by residents of the town.
Boko Haram insurgents had Monday stormed Government Girls Technical College in Dapchi and disappeared with 46 schoolgirls.
Some of the girls who fled into the bushes in the area had returned to the school.
The crowd, on sighting the governor in the area Thursday threw stones at his convoy, injuring some of his aides as well as government officials.
The anger seemed to have been precipitated by the Yobe government’s information that students in the school had been rescued.
The security men attached to the governor had to use tear gas to disperse the angry crowd who also destroyed seven vehicles in the convoy.
Many officials in the convoy were seen with bloodstained clothes as they were injured in the attack.
One of the journalists in the convoy, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said a cameraman was also injured.
He said: “We were in fear as the residents continued to throw stones to protest against government’s handling of the girls’ abduction.
“The angry residents ignored the tear gas as they vandalised seven vehicles in our convoy.
“From the little information that we got, they were angry that the Yobe State Government deceived Nigerians that the schoolgirls had been rescued when nobody was rescued.
“Some of them told the governor to present the girls that were rescued.”
(The Punch)
