By Ishaya Ibrahim, News Editor
President Muhammadu Buhari said on Tuesday that he was “deeply shocked” at the continued massacre of Nigerians by Boko Haram terrorists and charged the Nigerian military to extract heavy price from them.
The president’s lamentation came in the wake of recent bloodshed in the embattled Northeast region.
A statement by Garba Shehu, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, said as “news of one the most brutal terrorist attacks on innocent people emerged from the Northeast, President Muhammadu Buhari said he is deeply shocked by the brutal killing of tens of people by the Boko Haram/Islam in West Africa Province (ISWAP) in Gubio village, Borno State.”
Shehu said the President was expecting a detailed briefing by the Borno State Governor, Professor Babagana Zulum on the outcome of his visit to the affected communities.
The “primordial nature of the killings is particularly shocking because it happened not long after the Ramadhan and Eid, and the country is preparing to celebrate the Democracy Day,” the statement quoted Buhari as saying.
“In condemning the incident, President Buhari charged the armed forces to sustain their recent string of successes against the terrorists to extract a heavy price from the attackers, and bring back all those they kidnapped as well as the large number of cattle rustled.
“He also expressed the sincere condolences of the government and people of Nigeria to the bereaved families, communities and the government and people of Borno State.”