"BOKO HARAM INSURGENTS ARE GODLESS"....BUHARI

Nigeria's President,  Muhammadu Buhari has condemned the attack by Boko Haram insurgents on humanitarian in Rann, Borno state which left some aid workers dead.

Buhari, in a statement issued by his Special Adviser om Media and Publicity, Femi Adeshina on Friday in Abuja said the attack has shown that "the Boko Haram insurgents are godless, brutish, and utterly to be despised".



“As I have always maintained, no true religion advocates hurting the innocent", Buhari stated.

“To now further attack and kill those offering humanitarian aid is the height of bestiality. It is odious before both God and man".

President Buhari sympathised with the United Nations and other humanitarian agencies working at Rann and in the country generally.

He noted that such cowardly attacks can only bolster the determination of government to bring the Boko Haram insurgency to a decisive end in the shortest possible time.

It would be recalled that Boko Hram insurgents had, in a similar night attack at Rann community in Kala Baige LG of Borno state, killed four UN aid workers, all Nigerians.

In this recent atack, reports from News Agency of Nigeria has it that a female aid worker is also missing, while another sustained various degrees of injuries in the Thursday attack.

Head of Communications, UNICEF Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, Samantha Newport while confirming the incident to the media, said that two of the deceased were contractors of the UN client organisation,
International Organisation of Migration deployed to Rann as camp managers.

Ohers killed were a medical doctor working as consultant with UNICEF and an aid worker with the International Committee of Red Cross affiliate organisation, she added.

According to Newport, a female nurse was abducted, while another female aid worker was injured in the attack, explaining that, all the deceased personnel were Nigerians, adding that the world body would soon issue a statement on the incident.