{"id":15701,"date":"2019-02-27T15:38:27","date_gmt":"2019-02-27T15:38:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=15701"},"modified":"2019-02-27T15:38:27","modified_gmt":"2019-02-27T15:38:27","slug":"president-buhari-condemns-attacks-in-sokoto-kaduna-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=15701","title":{"rendered":"President Buhari condemns attacks in Sokoto, Kaduna States"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Release<\/strong><br \/>\nPRESIDENT BUHARI CONDEMNS LATEST ARMED ATTACKS IN SOKOTO AND KADUNA STATES<br \/>\nBy <strong>Garba Shehu<\/strong>, Senior Special Assistant to the President (Media &amp; Publicity)<br \/>\nPresident Muhammadu Buhari has commiserated with the families of the victims of the latest bandits\u2019 attacks in Sokoto and the inter-communal conflict in Kaduna State, warning that &#8220;mass murder of innocent people by criminals would be met with full force.&#8221;<br \/>\nReacting in Abuja on Wednesday, President Buhari said that, &#8220;The death of one innocent Nigerian is no less important than the death of a hundred&#8221;, adding that, &#8220;It is a matter of time before these murderous gangs of criminals meet their Waterloo.&#8221;<br \/>\nAccording to the President, &#8220;The criminals cannot be lucky always because the law will ultimately catch up with them and deliver justice ruthlessly.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Let no group of outlaws doubt the will and resolve of my administration to confront criminals who have no iota of regard for the sanctity of life,&#8221; he stated emphatically.<br \/>\nPresident Buhari also reassured Nigerians that their security remained a top priority of his government.<br \/>\nThe President said that, &#8220;Our security personnel are being trained, retrained, motivated and provided with essential equipment in order to improve their capacity to respond to our security challenges.&#8221;<br \/>\nPresident Buhari also prayed that God Almighty would grant rest to the souls of the unfortunate victims of the killings in Sokoto and Kaduna States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Release PRESIDENT BUHARI CONDEMNS LATEST ARMED ATTACKS IN SOKOTO AND KADUNA STATES By Garba Shehu, Senior Special Assistant to the President (Media &amp; Publicity) President Muhammadu Buhari has commiserated with the families of the victims of the latest bandits\u2019 attacks in Sokoto and the inter-communal conflict in Kaduna State, warning that &#8220;mass murder of innocent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":13131,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15701\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}