The Federal Government on Thursday said the Islamic State of West Africa Province was responsible for the killing of church worshippers in Owo, Ondo State last Sunday.
The Islamic State’s West Africa Province is known to be a insurgent group and administrative division of the Islamic State, which is a Salafi jihadist militant group which se be recognized as a state of its own.
ISWAP is primarily active in the Chad Basin, and fights an extensive insurgency against the states of Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad, and Niger.
Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, while speaking with journalists after a meeting of President Muhammadu Buhari with security chiefs, said the aim of the group is to set Nigerians against one another in a pre-meditated inter-tribal war.
He said government has directed security forces to go after ISWAP over the dastardly act with a view to bringing them to face the wrath of the law.
The minister also said government has ordered a proper investigation of the alleged blasphemous killings in Sokoto and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
According to him, the Inspector-General of Police and other security agencies are expected to thoroughly look into the killings and report back to government.
Terrorists had struck on Sunday killing at least 28 persons while many were sent to hospitals and in critical conditions.
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