SSS kills two gunmen in Bauchi school attack

State Security Service operatives in Bauchi State on Sunday repelled an attack by gunmen on their training school, killing two of the attackers.
Confirming the incident to the News Agency of Nigeria, the state Commissioner of Police, Alhaji Mohammed Ladan, said one of the attackers had been apprehended.
Ladan said, “I am just coming from the scene. Two of the assailants were killed while one of them was arrested.

“The arrested person told us that they were four in number. It means that one of them has escaped.”
According to him, a rod and wire cutter, pair of pliers, ropes, spanners and cell phones were recovered at the scene.
He, however, said apart from the two people killed, no other lives were lost, adding that no damage was done to property at the Senior Staff Training School of the SSS.
An Assistant Director of the SSS, Mr. Olu Justine, said intelligence report on of an impending attack on the school had earlier been gathered while the operatives were placed on alert.
Justine said five of the gunmen came for the operation about 4am and that two of them entered the school through a waterway.
He said, “Our patrol team spotted them and opened fire, gunning down the two, while the remaining three retreated. One of the retreating assailants was, however, arrested by the vigilant neighbouring local community and handed over to us.”
Meanwhile, Senate Leader, Chief Victor Ndoma-Egba, has described education as the only profitable gifts to be given to a child.
He said the issue of Boko Haram arose as a result of large army of uneducated young men and women.
The lawmaker, who spoke while presenting cheques to the beneficiaries of the Victor Ndoma-Egba scholarship award for the 2012/2013 academic year in Calabar on Saturday, said criminal activities would reduce in the country if attention was given to education.
According to him, the problem of insecurity in the country could be solved if youths were given adequate education.