The Nation Newspaper U.S. Mayor: Borno multiple suicide bombing cowardly
A United States Mayo has described weekend’s suicide bombing in Gwoza, Borno by teenagers, including one with a baby strapped to her back, as cowardly.
The Mayor said: “This weekend’s suicide bombing at a wedding in the community of Gwoza, Borno State, in Northeast Nigeria, was a desperate act of a defeated and discredited movement. While this is no consolation to families and friends of the victims, there is hope amid this tragedy.” The weekend bombing disrupted several years of end to IED explosions in the North-eastern state, raising fears that the Boko Haram terrorists might be on bomb attacks resurgence.
Despite the blast, he praised the efforts of the National Security Adviser, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, and said the weekend bombings did not in any way diminish his fight against terrorism, pointing out that since he came on board, Boko Haram had been unable to launch frequent raids on military bases as they used to undertake in the past.
The incidents happened at Mararaban Gwoza, a burial ground, a shopping mall, and a security checkpoint where a soldier was among those killed. “Regarding the injuries, there were abdominal raptures, skull fractures, limb fractures, among others. “The President declares that the purveyors of wanton violence shall have a certain encounter with justice and that these cowardly attacks are only but an isolated episode as his government will not allow the nation to slither into an era of fear, tears, sorrow, and blood.
Describing the attacks as cowardly, Inuwa, who is also the governor of Gombe State, emphasised that terror has no place in a peaceful and progressive society. The governor expressed his sympathies to the immediate families of the victims as well as the entire residents of Borno State who ‘’may have suffered personally and by association in the attacks.’’“I want to assure my brother-governor that the government and the good people of Lagos State stand with him in this very difficult time,” Sanwo-Olu added.
“On behalf of the United Nations, I remind all parties to the conflict to adhere to their obligations under international humanitarian law to protect civilians from harm.
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