ISWAP responsible for Ondo church massacre, National Security Council confirms
This was disclosed by the Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, on Thursday, June 9, 2022 while briefing State House Correspondents after the National Security Council meeting in Abuja.
According to him, security agencies, particularly the police, have been directed to apprehend the perpetrators.
The former governor stated that the attack has no ethnic-religious connection, affirming that the group’s activity has nothing to do with religion.
He also said the council is concerned about killings in the name of blasphemy and has directed the security agencies to go after perpetrators of the incidents that occurred in Sokoto State and Abuja recently.
Similarly, the Inspector General of Police, Usman Alkali Baba equally noted the imprints of the perpetrators of the Owo killings have been identified and although no arrests have been made, security agencies are now zeroing in on them.
The meeting, which was presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari, was held less than a week after scores of persons were killed in the attack and several others wounded.
In a recent meeting, Governor Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State said 40 persons died in the incident while 26 survivors have been discharged from hospitals in the area.
Akeredolu hosting the Catholic Bishops from the South-West led by Most Reverend Leke Abegunrin on Wednesday, June 8, 2022, said; “The figure I have now shows that 127 persons were involved and that the number of death now is 40. On admission receiving treatment, we have 61. Twenty-six have been discharged,”
“Those are the figures we have now from the Commissioner for Health. So, the government is not hiding anything,” he said.
Meanwhile, the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Bola Ahmed Tinubu donated N50 million to aid the treatment of the victims.
He also donated N25 million to the Catholic Church where the incident happened.
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