Killing of Kaduna students barbaric terror attack

....All killed

President Muhammadu Buhari, on Saturday strongly condemned the killing of three of the students kidnapped at Greenfield University, Kaduna State, just as he d
irects deployment of “fiercest show of legitimate force against perpetrators.

The three students killed according to online posts are named Sadiq Yusuf Sanga, Precious Nwakacha, and Dorathy Yohanna.

The President who described the students as bright youngsters cut down by evil people in their prime, extended his condolences and that of the Federal Government to the relatives, associates of the murdered students and the Kaduna State government.

Making this known in a statement signed by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu said: “My thoughts are with their families in this time of grief. May their souls rest in peace.”

On the recurring incidents of kidnappings and killings in Kaduna State in particular, the President condemned them as “barbaric terror attacks,” and described as “unfortunate the tenor of some political and religious leaders that seem to further incite and stoke the pain and anguish of mourning families who are forced to confront these tragedies. 

He noted that addressing this scourge "requires great show of empathy and coming together as a society to squarely confront these elements and the danger it poses to our democracy and peaceful life in the country.”

He gave strong assurances that those who think that profits can be made, either from money paid as ransom or in politics, “will suffer with equal measure of recompense under the full weight of the law for their wickedness and brutality.”

“Banditry, kidnapping and the politics of murders will be fought with all the resources available to our country,” the President declared.


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