November 30, (THEWILL) – President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday sympathised with families of the policemen allegedly murdered in the South-East by suspected “separatist elements, who videotaped the bestial killings, and proceeded to share it widely on social media”.
Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, had in a statement on Monday, alleged that ASP Francis Idoko (AP No. 154945); Inspector Emmanuel Akubo (AP No. 222336) and Inspector Rufai Adamu (AP. No. 285009), all serving officers of the Nigeria Police, were abducted by members of the Eastern Security Network (ESN), acting on the instructions of their leader, Chinonso Okafor, aka TEMPLE, on 27 November 2021.
The Minister alleged that two of the officers, Inspectors Akubo and Adamu, were killed in the most gruesome manner and their decapitated bodies videotaped and circulated widely.
Reacting to the development, President Buhari in a statement by presidential spokesman, Femi Adesina, lamented the horrific nature of the murder.
Noting that the three abducted policemen, two of whom have been brutally executed, were serving the country, and providing security to those who ironically turned against them.
The president expressed his heartfelt condolences to the bereaved families, praying for God’s comfort in their deep sorrow.
He equally sympathised with all those who have lost loved ones in the different theatres of insecurity that had rocked the country, charging them to take solace in the inevitable victory of good over evil.
“As the areas where insecurity was once fiercest in the country experience some measures of calm now”, the Presiden assured that the same would be replicated round the country, and the “people would no longer mourn and sorrow from wanton loss of lives”.
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