- By Halimah Olamide
President Bola Tinubu on Sunday said his government will not allow a return to an era of fear and violence.
He said this while condemning the bomb attacks, which resulted in the loss of lives and the maiming of other citizens in Gwoza Local Government Area of Borno State.
In a statement by Ajuri Ngelale, Special Adviser to the President on Media, President Tinubu described the attacks “as desperate acts of terror and a clear manifestation of the pressure mounted against terrorists and the success achieved in degrading their capacity to launch offensives.”
He said the President declared 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.”
He added, “The President states that his administration is taking necessary measures to secure citizens, emphasizing that efforts will be redoubled to ensure that those who trouble the nation, dispatching precious lives, and disrupting law and order are completely removed.
“President Tinubu condoles with the victims of the attacks, the families of the deceased, as well as the government and people of Borno State.”
It was a bloody day on Saturday in Borno as wedding guests were killed and injured in a suicide attack that has sent shockwaves to the country.