PRESIDENT Bola Tinubu has condemned the bomb attacks that resulted in the loss of lives and injuries to residents of the Gwoza Local Government Area of Borno State on Saturday, June 29.
The President described the attacks as desperate acts of terror and a clear manifestation of desperation arising from pressure mounted against terrorists by the Nigerian security forces.
While condoling with the victim’s families, the President declared that the actors behind the violence would be made to face justice.
The President stated these on Sunday, June 30, in a statement signed by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity Ajuri Ngelale.
He described the attack as an isolated episode and promised that his government would not allow the nation to slide into an era of fear, tears, sorrow, and blood.
The President said his administration was taking necessary measures to secure citizens, emphasising that efforts would be redoubled to ensure that those who trouble the nation would be made to face the law.
Tinubu sympathised with the victims of the attacks and the government and people of Borno State.
The ICIR reported that a female suicide bomber detonated a bomb at a wedding ceremony on Saturday, June 29, in Tashan Mararaba, Gwoza town, Borno State, killing at least six persons and injuring others.
Security analyst, Zagazola Makama, disclosed this in a post on his X handle.
He said the bomber, who was later identified as a young lady in her early twenties, detonated her explosive device in the middle of the gathering, causing confusion and devastation.
Makama added that intelligence sources told him that the victims, who were all civilians, were returning from a wedding when the attack occurred near a busy motor park.
A source who spoke to Premium Times said more than two bombs went off on Saturday.
The source said two bombs went off at a security checkpoint, killing a soldier and two civilians after the first was heard at a wedding ceremony in Mararaban Gwoza.
According to the source, the third bomb went off “at a shopping mall and the fourth one at a burial ground.”
Speaking with reporters in Maiduguri, the state capital, the Borno State Commissioner of Police (CP), Yusuf Lawal, declared that a female suicide bomber was responsible for the attack.
The Boko Haram insurgents have wreaked havoc on infrastructures and businesses, disrupting education, health, and power supply, among others.
The group has been joined by the Islamic State West African Province (ISWAP) to terrorise the state.
Terrorism in the North-East region greatly affected Borno, Yobe and Adamawa between 2009 and 2018.
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