Perpetrators Of  Fatima, Four Children’s Killing, To Face Tough Response- Buhari

Perpetrators Of  Fatima, Four Children Killing To Suffer Tough Response- Buhari

President Muhamadu Buhari has reacted to the killing on Sunday night of a pregnant northern woman, identified as Fatima, along with her four children in Anambra State.

The President who made this known through a statement by Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, Buhari warned the perpetrators of the heinous acts to expect severe response from the security forces.

He, however, caused against any knee-jerk reactions, the creation of panic, disruption of lives and livelihoods, or even retaliatory violence following the viral videos of the alleged killings of non-indigenes by the Eastern Security Network (ESN) and its mother terrorist group, the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB).

The President called for calm as security agencies are investigating the authenticity of the claims that instigated the dreadful pictures being circulated and also advised the citizens against unguarded steps or conclusions that could escalate the situation, but maintain behavior that will help maintain law and order while the law takes its proper course.

He also cautioned the public against the indiscriminate sharing of posts on social media so as to deny vested interests who seek to divide the country and create disturbance the chance to do so.

In the issuance of his very strong condemnation of these “wild, barbarous and wanton killings of innocent people” in the South-East as well as the other parts of the country, which he described as “deeply distressing,” President Buhari warned that perpetrators will face tough response from the security forces.