By Kelechi David
President Muhammadu Buhari, on Saturday strongly condemned the killing of three of the students kidnapped at the Greenfield University, Kaduna State.
The President described the students as bright youngsters who were cut down by evil people in their prime.
In a statement made available to Journalists by Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu the President said his thoughts are with their families in this time of grief.
He extended his condolences and that of the Federal Government to the relatives, associates of the murdered students and the Kaduna State government.
On the recurring incidents of kidnappings and killings in Kaduna State in particular, the President condemned them as “barbaric terror attacks,” and described as “unfortunate the tenor of some political and religious leaders that seem to further incite and stoke the pain and anguish of mourning families who are forced to confront these tragedies.
Buhari said that addressing this scourge, requires great show of empathy and coming together as a society to squarely confront these elements and the danger it poses to democracy and peaceful life in the country.
He gave strong assurances that those who think that profits can be made, either from money paid as ransom or in politics, “will suffer with equal measure of recompense under the full weight of the law for their wickedness and brutality.”
President Buhari assured Nigerians that banditry, kidnapping and the politics of murders would be fought with all the resources available in the country.
