Presidency commends Abia Authorities on coping with of cattle market incident – –

President Muhammadu Buhari has really helpful the Abia State authorities for the swift response in coping with the sad incident that occurred on Tuesday night time time on the brand new Cattle Market, in Ukwa Native Authorities Area of the state.

Buhari in an announcement signed by his Spokesman, Garba Shehu, appealed for calm while he sympathized with the victims.

The President further condemned the incidents of ritual killings, hate crimes, and killing of regulation enforcement officers all through the nation.

In expressing the sympathy of the nation to households of all the victims, President Buhari urged regulation enforcement companies, state governments, native authorities, neighborhood and non secular leaders to take all lawful actions to forestall further incidents of this nature, and to put in place measures in opposition to the normalization of these primitive acts, hate crimes and acts of terror.

“I condemn these dastardly acts of violence and pray for the souls of the departed,” talked about the President, together with that the courts of the land ought to apply “the strictest of punishment beneath our authorized pointers to the perpetrators of these horrific crimes.”

President Buhari talked about that killings throughout the establish of rituals, political agitation and tribal hatred is not going to be in keeping with the tenets of our religions and of the civilized and enlightened cultures we’re all claiming to be, together with that “no particular person has the exact to take the regulation in his or her private fingers.”

Furthermore, the President reemphasized the need for all Nigerians to be their brother’s keeper and might even see an assault, be it verbal or bodily on anyone, as an assault on the very essence that retains us as a nation.

Within the meantime, President Buhari has really helpful the federal authorities of Abia State for the actions it has to this point taken on the incident just some days previously in opposition to retailers on the New Cattle Market, in Ukwa Native Authorities Area of the state and appealed for calm. He moreover expressed his sympathies to the households of those killed and suffered lack of property following the assaults.