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Report over the Death of Sa’idu Bala Getso, level 200 Student of Civil Engineering Department, Kano University of Science and Technology, Wudil.

May 5, 2009

At evening of 2nd May, 2009 Sa’idu Bala Getso, level 200 student of Civil Engineering Department, Kano University of Science and Technology, Wudil died at Wudil River.
Sa’idu invites his friends to go to the river for swimming as usual. Generally, every weekend most of the Students are always went to the river for their own pleasure. After he reaches to the Wudil River together with his friends they enter into the river and start swimming.

Suddenly, a minutes before SALATUL-MAGRIB he change the location were he originally swimming before, then he accidentally sink down to the river, his colleagues try to pick him up but they didn’t find him.
His colleagues went to the home of SARKIN RUWAN WUDIL, SARKIN RUWA tell them he can’t pick him up at that moment due to the night, but he confirmed that around 7:00 o’clock of 3rd may, 2009 he will send his boys to the Wudil river for searching the died body of Sa’idu Bala Getso. And SARKIN RUWA said, he wants representatives from school authority at that particular morning.

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Mal. Tijjani Saleh Bichi, Dean Student Affairs of Kano University of Science and Technology, Wudil. Let the father to Sa’idu know about the death of his son early after SALATUL-ISHA’EH of 2nd May, 2009.


As SARKIN RUWA, make promise, early in the morning his boys together with Dean Student Affairs of Kano University of Science and Technology, Chief Security of Kano University of Science and Technology, Honorable Speaker to the Student Union Government of Kano University of Science and Technology, other dignitaries from of Kano University of Science and Technology, and respective Students of Kano University of Science and Technology, Wudil went to the point were Sa’idu sink down. At least, six representatives of SARKIN RUWA enter to the river for searching Sa’idu.


Unfortunately, they spend at least six hours and spend some kilometers searching Sa’idu without found his death body. Announcement made at University Central Masjid after SALATUL-ASAR of 3rd may, 2009 that, all Students are invited to come along to the river for searching Sa’idu again. Large number of Students went to the river after this announcement.

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AL-HAMDULILLAH, after some minutes pass 5:00 o’clock died body of Sa’idu was found in the Wudil River. Students and university nurse covered his body and put him to the University Ambulance.


Six minutes pass 6:00 o’clock of 3rd may, 2009 university ambulance, Dean of Student affairs, university chief security and students take Sa’idu to their home. Since in the afternoon of 3rd may, 2009 relatives to Sa’idu Bala Getso visit to Kano University of Science and Technology, and confirmed the death of Sa’idu as School authority and three eyed witnesses from Students confirmed them. On their visit they report the death of Sa’idu to the Divisional Police Station of Wudil, Kano State, Nigeria.

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