When 15 year old Blaise Felix Aliyu got an admission to the Air Force Comprehensive School Kaduna, he felt that the sun was beginning to rise for him. It was more so when his twin brother was also admitted. Orphaned early in life, they felt they could find some comfort in a school environment, with their age mates and senior colleagues to keep them company and guide them. Perhaps, they even had the dreams of becoming Air Force Officers in future.
But the joy has turned into sorrow. It has ended in tragedy. For, on June 19, 2024, the young Aliyu was tortured to death by two senior students. His killers are said to be SS3 students.
As he lies dead in a cold morgue, his twin brother is left confused, alone, and heartbroken. Heartbroken, too, is the Chief of the Air Staff, Air Marshal Hasan Abubakar who has ordered a comprehensive investigation.
Aliyu’s end began when the two SS3 students invited him to their room. Not suspecting that was the last he would be alive, he went to answer them. Nobody exactly knows, for now, what transpired, or what he did wrong, but they began to punish him. In the process of the harrowing punishment, they killed him.
Air Vice Marshal Edward Gabwet, Spokesperson for NAF, in a statement, expressed deep sorrow over Aliyu’s tragic end.
In the statement, he said the Chief of the Air Staff and the entire Officers and men of NAF are pained and sad over the inexplicable tragedy. He said an investigation has started to unravel exactly what happened.
Reads part of the statement: “The Chief of the Air Staff, Air Marshal Hasan Abubakar, and indeed the entire NAF family, are saddened by the painful and unfortunate incident of the untimely death of our students at Air Force Secondary School, Kaduna on June 19, 2024.
“To avoid all speculations, a thorough investigation is ongoing to unravel how, why, and what actually led to the death of the victim. Rest assured that this matter is receiving the utmost urgency it deserves, and we won’t rest until it is unraveled.”
A concerned parent who pleaded anonymity because his son is a student in the school wondered how such atrocity could be committed without attracting the attention of other students and/or staff. He worried too about the deceased’s twin brother who is still in the school. “Where was the Hostel Master or there was none?”, he lamented.
His suggestion: An immediate expulsion and prosecution of the two students involved.
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