Three Kano
State students, Lukman Abu Lukman (23), Khalifa SA (24) and Anwar AH
(17) have been arrested and detained for alleged conspiracy and killing
of a Nigerian national resident in Egypt who specialises in the training
of internet fraudsters popularly referred to as yahoo boys.
The
three students are among the hundreds of Kano indigenes sponsored by the
former administration of Dr Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, now a serving senator
to various higher institutions abroad including Egypt for further
studies.
Sometimes this year, the authority of AL Mansoura
University, Egypt where the students are studying conducted various
assessments on the standing of the students in the institution.
At
the end of the exercise, the institution’s Authorities it was learnt
wrote to the government of Dr Abdullahi Ganduje, who succeeded Kwankwaso
in office, intimating it that thirty-seven of the students could not
continue their academic pursuit on a ground of poor performances as well
as their passion for social activities.
On receipt of the letter
from the institution in Egypt by the State Government, Governor Umar
Abdullahi Ganduje reportedly directed that further verification about
the issue be carried out to know the correct situation. This
necessitated some officers of the government travelling to Egypt to meet
with the students, their agents and the institution’s authorities.
After
confirming the reality on the ground, the government instructed that
the students be allowed to return home with the hope to finding another
place for them in Nigeria.
This decision it was learnt was
promptly communicated to the parents of the affected students, but when
they were contacted by government officials to receive the return
tickets for their children, the issue became politicised.
It was
learnt that the former governor of the state, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso out
of anxiety travelled to Egypt, met with the concerned students and
assured them of making ways for them if he returned to power.
While
the students were waiting for what they hope will be a reprieve, two of
the 37 affected students met with a Nigerian fraudster named Onyeme
Loveday AKA 2shay in Egypt. According to report, one of the students
asked Onyeme to train him on Advanced Fee Fraud and Onyeme accepted his
request on the condition that after the training, he should be offered a
Hausa lady as compensation.
However, after the training, the
student from the university failed to fulfil the condition as agreed and
this resulted in a serious heated argument between Onyeme and the
student who was later joined by two of his other colleagues.
During
the cause of the argument, Onyeme allegedly brought out a knife to stab
one of the students, but the trio students overpowered him and in the
process murdered him as alleged. They were subsequently arrested and
detained for conspiracy and culpable homicide and are presently cooling
off at a detention facility in Egypt awaiting trial.
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