The police in Kano have arrested two students over the alleged attack on a lecturer at the Kano State Polytechnic.

Police Public Relations Officer SP Abdullahi Haruna Kiyawa said both the boyfriend, Khalid Hussain, 20, aka Baffa of Dorayi Quartets, and his fiancee, Khadija Hassan, 18, of Charanchi Quarters are being detained at the Anti-Daba (Anti-Thuggery) department of the command.

He said the lecturer, Aliyu Hamza Abdullahi, had filed a complaint with the police, and that investigation is ongoing as the perpetrators would not go scot-free.

It was gathered that the attack was  allegedly orchestrated by the female student and her boyfriend, whom she invited to the office of the lecturer she claimed was an obstacle to her academic aspirations.

The matter escalated when the boyfriend allegedly produced a cutlass and hit him on the head.

In a statement issued by the institution’s Public Relations Officer, Auwal Isma’la Bagwai, the swift intervention of nearby students and staff prevented the situation from turning fatal.

He said the female student had wanted to move to a different department but was told that her grades did not meet the requirements for her preferred course.

Angered that she was not able to get her wish, the student allegedly heaped the blame on the lecturer and called her boyfriend to teach him a lesson, it was gathered.