Olusegun Lawrence Senate President David Mark has condemned in strong terms the gruesome murder in cold blood of students of the Federal Government College , Buni, Yadi, in Gujba Local Government Area of Yobe State.
Scores of Students were brutally murdered by gunmen believed to be Boko Haram insurgents in the wee hours of Monday while asleep in their hostels.
Mark lamented that the insurgents have no justification to kill students who neither offended them nor committed any crime saying that”even in war situations, children and women were always spared.
“This open declaration of war on everybody especially defenseless students cannot be justified. This is inhuman, it is animalistic and barbaric. It is unthinkable that this is happening in Nigeria.
“It is also curious that under an emergency rule when security operatives should be on red alert. This mayhem still persists. Honestly, this calls for soul searching and I believe the security authorities must rise to this challenge”.
Mark sympathized with the government and people of Yobe state especially the families of the bereaved saying that the terror is not just national but an international threat, that calls for bravery on the part of every one to confront.
In the same vein, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) said it has been grief-stricken since it received the news of the gruesome killing of 43 students in a Federal Government College in Buni Yadi in Yobe state.
The PDP in a statement signed by the National Publicity Secretary, Olisa Metuh, on Wednesday described the attack and killing of the harmless students as “monstrous and extremely shocking”.
“The massacre of these harmless students cannot be justified under any guise. Indeed, the PDP is heart-broken and extremely devastated by this act of wickedness which can only be associated with the devil.
“The PDP bleeds inside as we mourn the slaughtering of these promising young ones. Our hearts go out to the parents and families of these innocent students. We share in their anguish, their pain and their despair and we earnestly pray that those behind this act must not escape judgement for spilling the blood of the innocent. No man commits such wickedness and gets away with it,” the statement said.
Urging Nigerians to unite against terrorism in the country, the PDP said “Nigerians must jettison all political partisanship and rally round President Goodluck Jonathan in his untiring efforts in tackling the problem of insecurity in the country.”
The party commended President Goodluck Jonathan for the measures so far applied in fighting insurgency in the country and urged the people to continue to pray for the nation and give support to the security forces especially in the area of intelligence gathering.
The PDP commiserated with the families of the slain students, the government and the people of Yobe state and prayed God to give them the fortitude to bear the loss.
