Senior Special Assistant, Media and Publicity to President Mohammadu
Buhari, Mallam Garba Shehu, has said the President is “greatly pained”
over the continued violence in various parts of the country.
He said this on Thursday while reacting to the fresh killings seven
persons in Guma local government area of Benue.
In a statement, Shehu said the repeated acts of mass killings in the
country and Benue state in particular, “point to the evil design of
enemies of peace and unity.”
While warning Nigerians against playing into the hands of “the agents of
disunity”, he quoted Buhari as saying these “agents” and their sponsors
plan to turn Nigerians against one another.
“We must resist all temptation to fall into this laid out plan,” the
statement read.
“The president is greatly pained by this persistent violence and the total
disregard for the sanctity of life by those he called ‘these hideously
evil people who have no iota of respect for humanity, decency and
civilization.’
“The president reiterates that the government will not rest on its oars in
its determination to fish out these barbarous mass murderers and their
clandestine sponsors.
“President Buhari equally assures Nigerians that measures being put in
place by the government will, sooner than later, bring to an end, these
extremely brutal and wanton killings.”