President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered directed law enforcement agencies to fish out those responsible for violent attacks recorded in Anambra and Ebonyi State in the past few days and bring them to book.
The attacks include the one carried out on Professor Charles Soludo, former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, and a contender for the ticket for the governorship election in Anambra, and a series of attacks in various communities in Ebonyi, that left scores of people dead. he attackers and make them face justice.
Three policemen with Soludo were killed in the attack on him, while a commissioner in the state was abducted.
Buhari’s order was contained in a statement issued by the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu, who quoted the president as saying that the perpetrators of the “heinous attack” should not be spared.
He sympathized with families and friends of those that lost loved ones, and to every member of the communities in Ebonyi State traumatised by “these despicable acts of wickedness.”
Shehu announced that Buhari had sent a message of sympathy to the Soludo, who is also a member of the Presidential Economic Advisory Council.
“I strongly condemn the cowardly terrorist attack on an outstanding Nigerian, Professor Chukwuma Soludo.
“Our prayers are with him and the families of the security operatives who lost their lives trying to defend innocent citizens assembled for a peaceful meeting. “We will continue to empower the police and the armed forces in their brave struggle against terrorism, banditry, and kidnapping,” the president said.
His order came as the apex Igbo Socio-Cultural organization, Ohanaeze Ndigbo warned that the ethnic nationality would not tolerate the unjust killing of her people.
In a statement by the National Publicity Secretary, Chief Chiedozie Alex Ogbonnia, the Ohanaeze Ndigbo, said it owes it a duty to condemn violence anywhere in Nigeria, warning that that “the Igbo cannot fold their arms while being massacred.
The Igbo love for peace is not in doubt but will not allow persons or groups to take undue advantage of the Igbo discipline, fortitude, hospitality, and decent civilization.”
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