PBA ReporterNigerian government has stated that Islamic State, West African Province (ISWAP) may likely be responsible for the gruesome attack of worshippers at St. Francis Catholic Church Owo, Ondo State last Sunday.
Minister of Interiors, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola have the hint while briefing newsmen after the State Security Council meeting presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja on Thursday.
Join our WhatsApp ChannelAregbesola who held the briefing alongside the Inspector General of Police, Alkali Baba Usman, said the horrendous attack which led to death of over 40 persons was carried out by international terrorists.
He disclosed that security agencies have been directed to go after the perpetrators of the act and bring them to justice, noting that though no arrest has been made so far to that effect.
According to Aregbesola, the act has no ethnic or religious undertone, but the criminals have the motive believed to be pitching Nigerians against each another and make it appear as ethno-religious war.
He added that there was no ethnic agenda in the attack, urging Nigerians to unite and defeat the terrorists.
His words, “The National Security Council has just risen from its meeting today, which reviewed, very critically, all aspects of security situation in the country and came up with conclusions, commending the efforts of the military and other security agencies in mitigating the insurgency, particularly in the Northeast, where the fundamentalists there have been weakened, degraded and equally in the Northwest, where the bandits are equally weakened, and the North central, where we’re engaged with pockets of bandits.”
“The council is quite concerned about the violent attack in Owo, Ondo State, and have been able to locate the perpetrators of that horrendous attack. From all indications, we are zeroing in on ISWAP, the Islamic State for West Africa.
“It is not an ethno-religious thing, the animals in ISWAP wanting attention, recognition, are suspected to have launched that attack. We have directed all the agencies concerned to go after them and bring them to justice,” the interior minister stated.
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