Adamawa, Kano attacks: Don’t succumb to terrorists’ blackmail – Atiku

Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has said that no society should surrender to anarchy because of terrorist harassment.

Reacting to the attacks in Yola, Adamawa State and Kano on Tuesday, the former Vice President in a statement in Abuja on Wednesday, 18 November said the Boko Haram terrorists are increasingly desperate as “they lost one captured territory after another, and the massive attack on their hideout (Sambisa forest) by Nigerian troops”.

According to the former Vice President, the terrorists are looking for soft targets to unleash their frustrations, adding that such methods of targeting defenceless people will not help the terrorists achieve their ambition to establish the reign of terror.

The Turaki Adamawa said he is highly disturbed by these senseless and purposeless attacks on innocent people, explaining that “killing innocent people is the worst injustice and human rights violation”.

According to Atiku, there is no moral, legal or economic reason to justify the killing of the innocent by any group of people anywhere.

The former Vice President, however, advised the people not to despair but to be vigilant because “terrorism would ultimately collapse from its own weak moral foundation of injustice and indiscriminate murder of the innocent.”

He urged the security agencies to step up their intelligence gathering initiatives and to establish listening posts to track and nip in the bud the murderous plots of the insurgents.

He expressed his condolences to the families of the victims in both the Yola and Kano attacks even as he urged emergency agencies to ensure that the wounded get adequate medical attention.