By Joshua Egbodo Abuja
Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, has described yesterday’s attack on worshippers in a Catholic church in Anambra state as “abominable, barbaric, inhuman, and the height of wickedness.” Scores of worshippers were murdered by gunmen inside a Catholic church in Ozubulu in Anambra state.
By Bode Olagoke Abuja
One of the grand sons of former Bauchi state deputy governor late Garba Gadi, Alhaji Ghazali Mohammed, has revealed the last wish of his grand dad to Nigerians and especially the All Progressives Congress (APC), saying the former admonished Nigeria “not to allow rogue elements to rule Nigeria again.” Gadi, who was the former Managing Director, Nigeria Bank for Commerce and Industry (NBCI), Cochairman of the historic 2013 All Progressives Congress (APC) Merger Committee and Pro-Chancellor and Chairman Governing Council of Federal University, Kashere, Gombe state, had been off and on hospital abroad in the past two years battling with the illness, but later died of cancer last week. But narrating the last wish of his grandfather, in a statement yesterday in Abuja after the burial of the septuagenarian at Azare, on Saturday, Mohammed said before his fi nal breadth in Delhi, India, “my grandfather admonished Nigerians and in particular the APC not to allow rogue elements to rule Nigeria again.” “If nothing else, President Muhammadu Buhari has instituted policies designed to plug the leakages of our public fi nance forever. With transparency instituted, everything will fall in place. Th is is why these rogue elements at every turn are putting obstacles on the anti-graft war being waged by President Buhari. Th ey are also obstructing Buhari’s foreign loans meant to develop the country’s defi cit infrastructure. Th ey don’t want Buhari to succeed. “His sole worry before he died was corruption which he reasoned is at the root of Nigeria’s underdevelopment, the emergence of Boko Haram and gross unemployment,” he said. It would be recalled that Gadi was dismissed unceremoniously, albeit unlawfully by the former governor of Bauchi, Malam Isa Yuguda, when he refused to join him to decamp from the defunct All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP); the matter which is still pending at the Supreme Court. The shooting is said to have occurred during church service while worshipers were still inside the church building yesterday morning. In a statement issued by his Special Adviser on Media & Public Affairs, Mr. Turaki Hassan, the Speaker said his heart is broken by the sad news of the massacre of innocent worshippers in cold blood by people he described as “sons of perdition whose souls will rot in hell.” “Have we lost our humanity?
Where is the place of sanctity of life and sacredness of worship places in our society? What offence did the worshippers commit to warrant their massacre in cold blood by wicked souls and heartless men?,” he said. He reiterated his call for the overhaul of Nigeria’s policing architecture that would lead to reform of the Police Force, equip them with modern and sophisticated gadgets “so as to discharge their duties of protecting lives and property effectively, and ensure social order in the society.” Dogara further called on security agencies to fish out perpetrators of the heinous crime and bring them to justice speedily. He extended his heartfelt condolences to families of the victims, people and government of Anambra state, the entire country and the Catholic Church over the incident
