President Muhammadu Buhari has condemned the killing of hostages by ISWAP Terrorists Group, as he calls on all Nigerians to be united against the evil forces that are trying so hard to divide the country along religious lines. He said Nigerians must not allow the terrorist group to divide the country.
President Buhari in the statement released on his official Twitter handle on Friday 27th December 2019, said:
“I am profoundly saddened and shocked by the death of innocent hostages in the hands of remorseless, godless, callous gangs of mass murderers that have given Islam a bad name through their atrocities.
We should under no circumstances let the terrorists divide us by turning Christians against Muslims because these barbaric killers do not represent Islam and millions of other law-abiding Muslims around the world.
As a President, the collective security of all Nigerians is my major preoccupation and the death of an innocent Christian or Muslim distresses me.
No true Muslim would be shouting ‘Allahu Akbar’ while killing innocent people, an evil frequently condemned by the Holy Qur’an.
These agents of darkness are enemies of our common humanity and they don’t spare any victim, whether they are Muslims or Christians, and therefore, we shouldn’t let them divide us and turn us against one another.
The goal of these psychopaths is to cause confusion and spread distrust between Muslims and Christians, despite the fact that they aren’t representing the interest of Muslims or Islam.
While I condemn this evil, I wish to reassure Nigerians that this administration will not lower its guard in the war against terrorism.
We will continue to intensify our efforts towards strengthening international cooperation and collaboration to break the backbone of these evildoers.
I call on all Nigerians to stand united against terrorism and to avoid unhelpful conspiracy theories that serve the interest of Boko Haram terrorists and ISWAP terrorists group,” the President said on Friday evening.