Makarfi condemns Mubi suicide attack

FORMER National Chairman of defunct National Caretaker Committee (NCC), Senator Ahmed Makarfi has expressed dismay at the news of the dastardly twin suicide bombings, which occurred in Mubi, Adamawa State, on Tuesday, taking the lives of many innocent lives.

In a statement issued by his media aide, Mukhtar Sirajo in Abuja on Wednesday, the former Kaduna state governor condemned the “heinous, barbaric and cowardly act, the first of which was perpetrated in a mosque against worshippers communing with God, ostensibly in the name of a religion whose respect for the sacredness of human life is so absolute that it equates the murder of a single person with the killing of the entire mankind.”

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The Senator expressed his belief that the perpetrators, “rather than God, are worshipping and serving the demon and there’s, therefore, the need for the forging of a united front to confront the menace that they pose.

“This should include among others, digging beneath the surface into the socioeconomic and even political circumstances that encourage the breeding of the monster.”

The former party boss admonished the government and the security agencies to sit up the in the fight against insurgency, “especially in the area of intelligence gathering and de-indoctrination so that future attempts can be nipped in the bud and the humongous anti-insurgency expenditure can be justifiably explained.”

Senator Makarfi condoled with the families of the deceased, Mubi Emirate, government and people of Adamawa State and indeed the entire country over this unfortunate callousness as he prayed for a speedy recovery to the injured.