President Muhammadu Buhari has reacted to the massacre of traders on Sunday at the market in Goronyo, Sokoto State, telling the blood-sucking criminals that “the clock of your ultimate destruction is ticking as you will no longer have a place to hide.”
The terrorists had invaded the Goronyo weekly Market in Goronyo Local Government Area (LGA) in the eastern part of Sokoto State, rounded up the traders and opened fire on them, and killing 49 persons.
President Buhari said in a statement that “the days of the bandits are indeed numbered because the military capabilities of our forces are being boosted by the acquisition and deployment of advanced equipment.”
“The bandits are living in the fool’s paradise of invincibility, but reality will soon dawn on them harder than ever before.”
The President added that “the bandits are currently under desperate pressures because of the intense and sustained air and ground operations against them in their hideouts by our security forces.
“The cowardly attacks on innocent people by the bandits show a rearguard action of criminals under pressure. But they will have no place to hide and our gallant security forces will not relent in the current offensive to defeat these callous enemies of humanity.”
He appealed to all Nigerians “not to despair because this administration is determined more than ever before to protect Nigerians from murderous criminal gangs that have no respect for the sanctity human of life.”
The President extended his sympathy to the families of the victims of the Goronyo attack and called on the people to continue to be patient as the military strategises on how to deliver the crushing blow to these bandits.
