A 15-year old student of Airforce Comprehensive School, Kaduna who is identified as Blaise Felix Aliyu was allegedly murdered by two Senior Secondary (SS3) students of the school in the dormitory within the Airforce Base in Mando, Kaduna.
LEADERSHIP gathered that late Felix, an orphan who lost his parents in 2013 left behind his twin brother who is a JSS2 student in same military boarding school.
Felix’s body has been deposited in the mortuary pending the conclusion of investigation to unravel the cause of his death.
The Nigerian Airforce, the owners of the school had not disclosed the identity of the victim or the cause of the his death, it however said thorough investigation is underway to unravel the actual cause of Felix’s death.
Spokesperson of the Nigeria Air Force (NAF), Air Vice Marshal Edward Gabkwet in a statement on Saturday said, “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 one of our students at Air Force Secondary School, Kaduna on 19 June 24”
“To avoid all sorts of speculations, a thorough investigation is currently 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,” the statement said.
Our correspondent who spoke with one of the officials at the Airforce Base who pleaded anonymity, corroborated the statement that the incident happened on June 19, 2024.
The official narrated that two SS3 students of the institution invited the victim to their room to punish him, but ended killing him.
”What I gathered was that two SS3 students who just finished their WAEC and were waiting for NECO examination invited Felix Aliyu who is an Assistant Headboy to one of their rooms to punish him.
“According to findings, these two students tortured him with electric iron till he died in their hands. First, we heard that the victim was ironing clothes and he was electrocuted, but we later gathered that it was not so. It was a case of murder. I learnt the two SS3 students suspected to be behind the act were arrested.”
When contacted, one of the relatives of the victim who did not want her name in print, confirmed the incident but said she was not in a position to talk to the press.
However, the unidentified chairman of the school’s Parents Teachers Association (PTA) who posted on the PTA WhatsApp platform said the late Felix died as a result of being punished by a Senior Secondary School 3 student.
The PTA Chairman said the suspected senior student did an illegal electricity connection in the room where the deceased student had a contact with the iron bed while being punished for an undisclosed offence when he got electrocuted and eventually died.
Efforts to speak with the Kaduna State Police Command over the incident were not successful.
