• Urges regional leaders to speak against such barbaric acts
President Muhammadu Buhari has described as sad and shocking, the beheading of Master Warrant Officer Audu Linus and his partner, Private Gloria Mathew, after allegedly being shot by the terrorist group, the Indigenous People of Biafra, (IPOB).
The president has also directed the military authorities and other security agencies to do their utmost in apprehending the perpetrators of the barbaric act and bringing them to justice.
Buhari, in a statement by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, on behalf of the government and the entire nation, condoled with the Nigerian Army and the families of the soldiers killed on Saturday, on their way to finalise their marriage rites.
The statement read in parts: “The corpses were inhumanely treated and gleefully posted on social media platforms.
“The president joins fellow citizens in expressing a deep sense of shock and condemns the barbarism of the perpetrators of this unfortunate incident, and similar acts of violence against law enforcement agents, describing it as alien to all cultures and civilisations.
“President Buhari calls on all leaders – community, regional and national – to “speak with one voice, to show that the entire country is against this cruel and barbaric act of violence. This is unacceptable.
“Our thoughts and prayers are with the families of victims of this sad and tragic incident,”
said the president.
