President Goodluck Jonathan on Thursday firmly condemned the terrorist attack on Garissa University College in Kenya that happened in the early hours of Thursday.
In a statement released by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Official Presidential spokesman, Reuben Abati, Jonathan condemned the deliberate targeting of innocent persons, schools and other soft targets by terrorists.
He stressed that “such atrocious, despicable and barbaric acts of violence ought to have no place in any civilized society.”
Abati said the President was sending his consolation and sympathy to the government and people of Kenya and the families of the victims.
According to the statement, Jonathan assured President Uhuru Kenyatta and the “brotherly people of Kenya” that Nigeria stood in full solidarity with them as they came to grips once again with the aftermath of another heinous terrorist attack on their country.
Jonathan also affirmed his commitment to continue working with Kenya, other African countries and the international community to rid the world of all terrorist groups.
According to Abati, Jonathan believes that the attack on the Kenyan university and other similar atrocities across the world must strengthen and solidify the resolve of the global community to take more urgent and coordinated actions to speedily defeat the agents of global terror.
Islamist gunmen had attacked the Kenyan university before dawn on Thursday, opening fire on students and taking hostages in a terror attack that left 70 dead.
Two attackers were reportedly killed in the ongoing security operation, and one was arrested. The Somalia-based Al-Shabaab militant group claimed responsibility for the assault.
The man whom Kenyan police say was a possible mastermind of the attack on a college in northeast Kenya is currently in charge of Al-Shabab’s external operations against Kenya, according to Kenya’s intelligence service.
Kenyan Police have offered a $220,000 bounty for Mohammed Mohamud, who has the aliases Dulyadin and Gamadhere. They believe he is the mastermind of the attack.
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