Nigeria’s President, Muhammadu Buhari, has condemned the latest attacks and killings by Boko Haram in Borno State, north-east Nigeria.
This came after the attack on Kukawa village on Thursday in Borno State, which left at least 90 people dead.
According to a statement released by the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, the President urged Muslims around the world to reject with one voice, the claim by attackers to be acting in the name of Islam.
“President Buhari considers the murder by the terrorists of up to 150 innocent men, women and children in Kukawa a very heinous atrocity which must be unreservedly condemned by all people of conscience,” the statement read.
The President believes that these last desperate acts of fleeing agents of terrorism underscore the urgent need to bring to early fruition the efforts of his government to form a more effective international coalition against insurgency and terrorism in Nigeria and neighbouring countries.
President Buhari conveyed his heart-felt condolences to families of the victims of Boko Haram’s dreadful killings in Kukawa.
In a condolence message to the government and people of Egypt on the recent murder of the country’s Attorney General, Hesham Barakat and the killing of about 70 Egyptian soldiers in the Sinai Peninsula by terrorists, President Buhari restated his conviction that concerted global action was needed to overcome terrorism in all parts of the world.
