By Abdulrasaq Kamaldeen
It was Saturday, 26th August. Around 3:50 pm, everywhere was calm, the atmosphere resplendent like a new moon that appeared in the daylight.
Babaita Muhammad Bello, a 100-level student of Physics and resident of Block D (Room 4) of the Jubril Aminu hostel prepared to meet his friends at Block C to defeat boredom. This time, most students had departed the campus for the first-semester break, including all his roommates, which left him alone and lonely in the room. Bello locked his room and stepped his leg outside the door as he visited his friends.
However, about 20 feet to his room; fore and aft, he looked beyond where he was, surprised, he saw a Yaro boy carrying his bed. ‘What is Yaro boy doing with my bed,’ he thought as he walked towards him.
“I wondered, how my bed walked to yaro boy, I chased him, he ran and I wasn’t able to catch him,” Bello narrated the unbelievable scene but little did he know that there is tragedy after tragic-comedy.
Bello entered the room, at first he was doubting his sight as he could not believe how the filled rooms turned empty. His clothes, food and documents were nowhere to be found. Realizing that things had fallen apart, he was depressed.
Speaking with this reporter, he said, “This will affect me in so many ways but I don’t know how to express myself and where to start from. My stolen credentials are so very important to me as long as I am alive, now, how can I get it back?” Bello put forth the polar question while stating that it is an unendurable situation in his life.
“How can l get wear and food? Should I be borrowing clothes and food? Actually, this will affect me a lot because there is no money to buy clothes and food now,” he lamented, affirming to recognize the medium in height and dark in complexion yaro boy that cast away his property.
How l Found My Belongings— Bello narrated
Early Sunday morning, 27th August, around 6:00 am, birds were chirping in their hut and the cloud kept changing to be in the normal setting. As a Muslim, Bello stood up to fulfill the rite of Solat-al-subhi– the Muslim’s dawn prayer, he was fortunate enough to see his documents on his way to the Jubril Aminu mosque.
“On my way to the mosque I saw one black bag. Without hesitating I checked it and I found it to be mine, I saw some of my documents in the bag. I immediately looked around to look for the Yaro boy since I could recognize him, luckily I saw him, he tried to run away, but I caught him and handed him to the security office where they interrogated him together with the other three perpetrators,” said Bello.
Confirming the incident, Muheeb Mashood, a 200-level student said he was an eye witness when the Yaro boy was caught.
“He was caught running away with a bag with a pair of clothes and student’s credentials in it.”
Security Unit Give me Assurance – Bello lamented
Speaking with the News Digest Press, Bello said after interrogation, the security unit told them that the remaining stolen property was in the yaros’ house and told them to come for it the following day (morning).
As asked, Bello went back to the security unit to retrieve his remaining property the following morning, getting there, the security officers provided him with nothing despite being promised.
“I was unable to get my food back, despite the security unit’s promise that they will provide me with the remaining property. They said I should wait until the chief security officer(CSO) is around,” he said.
This reporter visited the security unit on Thursday and Friday but the officers said only the school’s COS can comment on the incident.
As of press time, The News Digest Press could not reach out to the CSO and Bello is yet to get his remaining properties.