SAD!!! President Buhari Mourns

Malam Garba Shehu, the President’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, in a statement in Abuja on Saturday night, said Buhari made his feelings known in a message to the families and friends of the victims at their funeral on Saturday.

Sympathisers, Boys Brigade members at Christian Cemetry in Gombe during the burial of slain brigade members on Easter Sunday (Punch)
Sympathisers, Boys Brigade members at Christian Cemetry in Gombe during the burial of slain brigade members on Easter Sunday (Punch)
Nine of the youths being buried were killed following a dispute between members of the brigade and a security operative while on a procession to mark Easter.

Buhari said that his heart was filled with the pain that the families of the victims were facing as they buried these promising youngsters.

He, however, urged them to be consoled by the fact the “entire nation is with you as experience this sad, indescribable loss.

japhet Moses,one of the survivors of the incident and the wreckage of the car the NSSDC official allegedly drove through the procession of Boys Brigage members on Easter Sunday (Daily Trust)
”May the Almighty God comfort you at this difficult time”.

The presidential aide also quoted the President as expressing shock over the reported tensions in the state capital which had led to the imposition of a curfew by the local authorities.

Buhari, therefore, directed ”security agencies in the state to ensure that vigilance is maintained”.