President Muhammadu Buhari has
described the attack on some United Nations aid workers in Borno state as the
“height of bestiality”.
Earlier on Friday, the insurgents
overran a military base in Rann, Borno state, killing at least four soldiers,
four policemen and three humanitarian workers.
They also abducted a female
nurse.
In a statement by Femi Adesina,
his spokesman, Buhari said insurgents are “godless and brutish”.
“As I have always maintained, no
true religion advocates hurting the innocent”, he said.
“To now further attack and kill
those offering humanitarian aid is the height of bestiality. It is odious
before both God and man.”
Buhari also sympathised with the
UN and other humanitarian agencies working at Rann, and in other parts of the
country.
He said 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”.
The UN had earlier condemned the
attack.
Edward Kallon, the U.N.
Humanitarian coordinator in Nigeria, had called on the authorities to ensure the
perpetrators “are brought to justice”.
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