I have received yet another disheartening news of the killing of five soldiers by suspected militants of the proscribed terrorist organization, IPOB.
The slain soldiers were on peacekeeping duty in Aba, Abia State on Thursday when they were murdered, just two months after a similar tragic incident happened in Okuama in Delta state.
These unwarranted barbaric and evil acts stand condemned and should never be condoned and tolerated in our country.
Our soldiers and the police have the onerous duty to protect all of us from aggressors and non state actors. Hundreds of them have paid the ultimate price in fulfilment of their duty, while some have experienced the indignity of being manhandled by the people they protect.
They surely do not deserve the mindless attacks by unruly elements in our society.
The federal government will come down heavily against those who have made it a habit to needlessly attack the officers and men of our armed forces.
On no account should anyone, under any guise, have the audacity to kill agents of state.
I want to make it clear that the government of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and the armed forces have the capacity to crush violent non-state actors, making our communities unsafe.
I urge security agencies not only to fish out the masterminds and perpetrators of the Aba attack, but also those calling on people to stay at home. Their action is nothing but a treasonable offence.
The fact that the security forces are exercising necessary restraints should not be mistaken for weakness.
We are working to build a peaceful and harmonious society, but nobody should be under any illusion that the government will not act appropriately when the lives of our officers and men are wantonly taken.
While my condolences go to the families of the five slain soldiers, their colleagues and the leadership of our armed forces, I urge other men and women on peacekeeping duty not to be discouraged by the unfortunate incident in Aba.
Bola Ahmed Tinubu
President and Commander-in-Chief, Federal Republic of Nigeria
June 1, 2024
OBI UME-EZEOKE
June 3, 2024 at 2:22 pmGrapevine sources of info are that the President should look inward at one of his Ministers from a neighbouring State to Abia to find the persons who killed the soldiers at Aba on Biafra Däy 30 May 2024.
That there was no way or means by which a loosely organized immobile and poorly coordinated ragtag group like IPOB could have within the limits of time and space assembled a 3 vehicle convoy of black SUVs of the type usual and seen in officialdom.to hit.the surprised soldiers THEN DISAPPEAR INTO THIN AIR.
The truth is that the assailants were not monitoring Sit-at- Home rather had targeted to kill soldiers before they entered Aba the purpose being to unleash mayhem by troops stationed there and to discredit the Abia State Government, of course Labour Party. Probable that after the killing the convoy broke up and returned to Port Harcourt by different routes n times.
Conspiracy theorist ????