By Atinuke Alao
President Bola Tinubu has ordered the deployment of an army battalion to Kaiama Local Government of Kwara State, where Boko Haram terrorists between Tuesday evening and wee hours of Wednesday gruesomely murdered villagers in Woro and Nuku communities.
Tinubu said the new military command will spearhead Operation Savannah Shield to checkmate the barbaric terrorists and protect defenceless communities.
The President gave the directive in a statement issued through his Special Adviser on Information & Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, on Wednesday night.
Seventy five local Muslims were slaughtered in the campaign of terror after they resisted the terrorists’ attempt at indoctrinating them.
However, Tinubu condemned the cowardly and beastly attack and described the gunmen as heartless for choosing soft targets in their doomed campaign of terror.
He expressed rage that the attackers killed the community members who rejected their obnoxious attempt at indoctrination, choosing instead to practice Islam that is neither extreme nor violent.
“It is commendable that the community members, even though Muslims, refused to be conscripted into a weird belief that promoted violence over peace and dialogue,” the President said.
He urged collaboration between federal and state agencies to provide succour to members of the community and ensure those who committed the atrocities do not go scot-free.
Tinubu prayed for the repose of the soul of the deceased and condoled with those who lost family members.
He also condoled with the people and the government of Kwara State.
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