A 16-year-old female student of Federal
Government Girls College (FGGC), Jalingo,
Blessing Ellan and her father who were arrested
on Monday while trying to enter the school
premises with two military hand grenades said
she did not know how the grenades got into her
bag.
Ellan, who stated this yesterday in Jalingo while
answering questions from journalists at the
state police command, said the day she went to
the market to buy her provisions, she bought
gari and kept
it with her customer to enable her go and buy
other things that she would need in school, and
when she brought them home, she arranged
them in her bag.
“There was nothing that looked like military
grenades when I was arranging those
things I bought in my bag,” she said.
She stated that even when she left her house to
the park, there was nothing like that in her bag,
adding that it was when they got to Maraban
Zing where their driver dropped some
passengers that her father went to the back to
monitor her bag and discovered that the bag
had been unzipped.
“When my father saw that my bag was
open, he asked if I was the one who
opened the bag; I told him no and he just
zipped it and we all proceeded to Jalingo”.
She said it was when she brought her bag for a
search at the school gate that the security men
discovered the two hand grenades in the bag.
“Although, when our driver was dropping
passengers at Mararaban Zing, I saw four
men at the back of the vehicle we entered.
But I do not know what they were doing at
the back of our car”, she stressed.
She said she has nothing to do with Boko
Haram and nothing in common with the
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