President Muhammadu Buhari says the attack on
humanitarian workers in Rann, Borno State, has now shown Boko Haram
terrorists as godless, brutish, and utterly to be
despised.
The President condemned the attack by the insurgents on Friday
in a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi
Adesina.
Members of the outlawed group had attacked an Internally
Displaced Persons (IDPs) camp on Friday, killing the three aid
workers, while three others were injured and a female nurse
missing.
Reacting to the incident, President Buhari said, “As I have
always maintained, no true religion advocates hurting the
innocent.”
“To now further attack and kill those offering humanitarian aid
is the height of bestiality; it is odious before both God and man,”
he added.
The President further sympathised with the United Nations and
other humanitarian agencies working at Rann, and in the country
generally.
He affirmed that such cowardly attacks can only bolster the
determination of the Federal Government to bring the Boko Haram
insurgency to a decisive end, in the shortest possible time.
Earlier, the United Nations asked the Nigerian government to
ensure the killers of the aid workers were brought to book.
“Aid workers put their lives on the line every single day to
provide emergency assistance to vulnerable women, children, and
men,” the UN Humanitarian Coordinator in Nigeria Edward Kallon had
said.
“Our deepest condolences go to the families of the victims and
our brave colleagues and we call on authorities to ensure the
perpetrators are brought to justice and account.”
Two of the deceased aid workers were contractors with the
International Organisation for Migration, working as coordinators
in the camp for 55,000 IDPs who have fled their homes as a result
of the insurgency.
The other deceased aid worker was a medical doctor employed as a
third-party consultant with UNICEF.
The UN had also raised concern about other civilians who may
have been injured or killed in the attack, saying “the crisis shows
no sign of abating”.
President Muhammadu Buhari says the attack on
humanitarian workers in Rann, Borno State, has now shown Boko Haram
terrorists as godless, brutish, and utterly to be
despised.
The President condemned the attack by the insurgents on Friday
in a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi
Adesina.
Members of the outlawed group had attacked an Internally
Displaced Persons (IDPs) camp on Friday, killing the three aid
workers, while three others were injured and a female nurse
missing.
Reacting to the incident, President Buhari said, “As I have
always maintained, no true religion advocates hurting the
innocent.”
“To now further attack and kill those offering humanitarian aid
is the height of bestiality; it is odious before both God and man,”
he added.
The President further sympathised with the United Nations and
other humanitarian agencies working at Rann, and in the country
generally.
He affirmed that such cowardly attacks can only bolster the
determination of the Federal Government to bring the Boko Haram
insurgency to a decisive end, in the shortest possible time.
Earlier, the United Nations asked the Nigerian government to
ensure the killers of the aid workers were brought to book.
“Aid workers put their lives on the line every single day to
provide emergency assistance to vulnerable women, children, and
men,” the UN Humanitarian Coordinator in Nigeria Edward Kallon had
said.
“Our deepest condolences go to the families of the victims and
our brave colleagues and we call on authorities to ensure the
perpetrators are brought to justice and account.”
Two of the deceased aid workers were contractors with the
International Organisation for Migration, working as coordinators
in the camp for 55,000 IDPs who have fled their homes as a result
of the insurgency.
The other deceased aid worker was a medical doctor employed as a
third-party consultant with UNICEF.
The UN had also raised concern about other civilians who may
have been injured or killed in the attack, saying “the crisis shows
no sign of abating”.
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