Six secondary school students drown In Kaduna River while returning from writing WAEC exams
No fewer than six teenagers drowned in the Mbang river on Tuesday in Ribang (Mbang) village, Kauru local government area of Kaduna State.
The National Public Relations Officer of Ribang Development Association, Pastor Simon Ishaku who confirmed this, said the teenagers were returning from where they wrote their junior WAEC exam when the incident occurred.
The victims were identified as; Manasseh Monday (16 years), Musa John (16 years), Pius David (15 years), Monday Ayuba (16 years), David Danlami (19 years), and Yahuza Audu (16 years) who were students of Government Secondary School Fadan Chawai writing the West African Junior School Examination.
The cleric explained that as of now, there are still three missing as locals have not been able to recover them out of the river.
He also told PUNCH that “The school children left their homes full of hope and excitement while their parents went to the farm with the hope of reuniting with them after writing their papers of the day, only to meet their untimely death.”
“The Mbang river has been a death trap for our people over the years, noting before the community can access any school or any hospital facility, they have to travel for about 8 kilometres.”
“We’re calling on the Federal Government, Governor Uba Sani, Senator Sunday Katung and our House of Representative members as a matter of urgency, to kindly assist us with a school, hospital, access road and bridge in order to bring succour to our community,” Simon appealed.
The police and the national emergency agency have yet to react to the development.
