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  • Terrorists should not be spared or forgiven – Buhari

    President Muhammadu Buhari has described the brutal terrorist attacks in Kanam and Wase communities in Plateau State as heinous, saying that the perpetrators should not be allowed to escape justice.

    According to a statement by Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, Buhari said: “They should not be spared or forgiven.”

    The president, who said he has full details of the attacks, ordered law enforcement agencies to work strenuously with the government of the state, to bring the situation under control and take steps to bring the culprits to justice quickly.

    President Buhari expressed condolences over the terrorist incident, saying that as a matter of priority, peace must return at all costs to the state and the entire country.

    “I urge all our citizens, the people of Plateau State in particular to expose the perpetrators of such incidents, their sponsors and those who encourage such criminals who carry out these dastardly acts of murder, so that the law will take its course. They must not be forgiven,” the president said.

    (Sun)

  • Bandits align with terrorist organisations to wreak large-scale havoc in the north region. -Niger State Gov

     

    Niger State Governor, Abubakar Bello, has said that the bandits troubling the north have aligned with terrorist organisations to wreak large-scale havoc in the region.

     

    Governor Bello stated this weekend at the Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida Specialist Hospital, when he visited some soldiers injured recently following attacks by bandits in Shiroro within the Kagara Rafi Local Government Area of Niger State.

     

     

    According to him, “We have every reason to believe we are not dealing with just bandits and with the latest operations and the way they coordinate their attacks, it confirms that they must have some kind of training.

     

    “So we want to believe we are dealing with some terrorist elements who have decided to have some kind of alliance with bandits for whatever reasons.”

     

    Bello who also is the chairman of North Central States Governor’s Forum, NCSGF, said the magnitude of recent attacks carried out by bandits calls for a review of the security architecture.

     

    While noting that the injured soldiers were recuperating, the governor disclosed that two soldiers died in the Shiroro attack

     

    Governor Bello passed a vote of confidence in the Nigerian Military, stating that the security operatives were capable of curtailing the situation, calling for more support from residents and urged individuals with useful and timely information to come forward.

    Bello’s remarks came a day after gunmen kidnapped the Permanent Secretary at the Niger State Ministry of Transportation, Dr Ibrahim Musa.

     

    Musa was said to have been abducted from his house along with his son on Friday night in Zungeru, a town in Wushishi Local Government Area, LGA, of the state.

     

    The Chief Press Secretary to the state governor, Mary Barje, confirmed the abduction of the government official  in a statement on Saturday.

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Source: www.vanguardngr.com

  • Nigeria is Decomposing from within.

     

    THE Archbishop of Sokoto Catholic Diocese, Bishop Matthew Kukah, yesterday, declared that the President Muhammadu Buhari administration is not sincere in dealing with terrorists killing Nigerians.

     

    Wondering why it is difficult for the government to release names of sponsors of Boko Haram terrorists, the cleric declared that “Nigeria is decomposing from within.”

     

    Kukah spoke in a sermon at the Priestly Ordination of Five Deacons at the Holy Family Cathedral, wondering why the Buhari administration has refused to release names of Boko Haram sponsors.

     

    His words: “Nigeria is a broken country. It is decomposing from within. Our heart is broken and lives are hemorrhaging by the day. We cannot go on like this. The country and people have become so traumatised and sedated by horrible news, that have now become comfortable in ‘this swamp of evil’.

     

    “No number of horrific deaths, murders, sexual violence and kidnapping of children or adults can make us stop our life of debauchery.”

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Source: www.vanguardngr.com

  • Senate asks Buhari to wage war against bandits and declare them terrorists

     

    The Senate has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to declare bandits operating in different parts of the country terrorists and wage a war against them.

     

    It also asked the president to approve aerial bombardment of locations of terrorists to annihilate and eliminate them.

     

     

     

    It further urged the President to declare all the known leaders of bandits wanted and track them whenever they are for arrest and prosecution.

     

    The decision of the Senate followed the consideration and adoption of a motion tagged: “Banditry in Sokoto State, particularly Sokoto East senatorial district”, sponsored by Ibrahim Gobir. He hails from the State.

     

    In his contribution, Kabiru Gaya, said bandits were now attacking village at would without any resistance bybthe relevant authorities.

     

     

     

    “There are some many people being killed. We have invited security agents here several times and we have approved money. But nothing appears to be happening. Bandits are attacking village and killing people.”

     

    Lilian Uche Ekwunife, urged President Buhari to address Nigerians, warning that the issue was getting out of hand. She said people in Abuja and other parts of the country are being killed at will

     

    “Security has gone so bad and we have to to careful. Across the country, Security has be taken seriously. Armed robbers go to hotels in Abuja and kidnap people at will. In the South East and South West, it is the same thing. I think President Muhammadu Buhari must address the nation. Things are getting out of hands.”

     

    Mohammed Ali Ndume, while contribution, said: “The situation in North West and North Central is worrisome. What we are faced with is very different. What we are faced in the North is also about humanitarian crisis.”

     

    President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, in his remarks, said the National Assembly may increase security budget to N1 trillion in next year’s budget.

     

    “The issue of security is one we can never stop talking about. As a Government, we need to give our security agencies the needed money they need. Since we have approved about N800 Billion for security agencies, think we can increase it to N1 trillion,” he said.

     

    The motion was adopted after Lawan put it to a voice vote.

     

     

     

     

    Source: www.sunnewsonline.com

  • Call them terrorists, not bandits – Emeka Anyaoku, ex-Commonwealth Secretary General

    Call them terrorists, not bandits – Emeka Anyaoku, ex-Commonwealth Secretary General

    Mr Anyaoku says Nigeria is sliding into “international irrelevance.

    A former secretary general of the Commonwealth, Emeka Anyaoku, said the current state of affairs in Nigeria was pushing the country to the brink of disaster.

    Mr Anyaoku said this at the 10th edition of the Emeka Anyaoku Lecture Series on Good Governance, organised in his honour in Awka on Thursday.

    The former diplomat, who hails from Obosi, Idemili North Local Government Area of Anambra State, said he had to break his over 10 years resolve to be away from public glare because Nigeria was fast drifting away from the dreams of her founding fathers.

    “Developments in this country are pushing Nigeria to the brink of national disaster,” he said.

    Mr Anyaoku, 88, decried the degeneration of the country into “international irrelevance” and the slide into the ranks of poverty-stricken nations.

    He said the level of deterioration had robbed Nigeria of the desired respect and the much needed sense of belonging by her citizens. He condemned the rise in cases of kidnapping and the acts of bandits who, he said, must be called what they are, “terrorists, and nothing more”.

    Apart from mass abduction of citizens, bandits operating around northern Nigeria have carried out deadly attacks on Nigeria’s security agencies, including the army.

    Seven soldiers were killed in July, for instance, when some bandits ambushed the Nigerian troops in a village in Kebbi State.

    Mr Anyaoku expressed worry over the recent assault on a Nigerian diplomat in Jakarta, Indonesia, noting that such a development indicated the ignominy with which the rest of the world now treat Nigeria.

    Mr Anyaoku recalled that in their heydays in diplomatic circles, such an odious treatment could not be imagined. He recalled how as a young assistant serving in Nigeria’s embassy in the U.S, in the 1960s and early 1970s, almost every state in the U.S. craved his audience.

    In his speech at the event, Governor Willie Obiano of Anambra State said this year’s edition of the lecture came at the right time in the political history of the state.

    (premiumtimesng.com)