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President Muhammadu Buhari has condemned the recent execution of five aid workers of humanitarian agencies by suspected Boko Haram in a released viral video.
The President also sympathised with the families of the slain aid workers while praying for God’s comfort on them for their irreplaceable loss.
This was made known in a statement issued by the President’s Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu on Wednesday.
Buhari also condoled with the State Emergency Management Agency, Action Against Hunger, Rich International, and International Rescue Committee, whose staff were executed by the insurgents.
He thanked them for their continued dedication and service to the victims of Boko Haram in the North East.
According to Shehu, the President assured that the government would continue to do all it could to ensure that “every remaining vestige of Boko Haram is wiped out completely from the North East.
He assured them that security agencies in the state would work closely with their organisations to implement measures to ensure that no such kidnapping of staff occurs again.
Meanwhile Buhari will Thursday depart for Bamako, Republic of Mali on a one-day visit, following the briefing by the Economic Community Of West African State (ECOWAS) Special Envoy to the country, former President Goodluck Jonathan.
Mali has been engulfed in a political crisis with protesters taking to the street to call for the resignation of its President, Ibrahim Boubacar Keita as well as for the national assembly to be dissolved.
A movement known as M5 has been tapping into deep-seated frustrations about the 75-year-old president’s perceived failures in tackling the dire economy, corruption and the country’s eight-year-long conflict with armed fighters,” Aljazeera reports.
Many Malians are also incensed at the outcome of long-delayed parliamentary elections in March and April that handed victory to Keita’s party.
