Last Friday, Boko Haram detonated two bombs in the two satellite towns of the Federal Capital territory, Abuja, killing as many as 14 people. In what has been the terrorist sect's most deadly attack on the capital recently, massive explosions rocked Kuje Market, Kuje Police Station and the Nyanya overhead bridge.
Yesterday, President Buhari visited some of the victims at the Trauma Centre of the National Hospital in Abuja, where he promised to take care of their medical bills and be responsible for their treatment. While wishing them a speedy recovery, the president, who was accompanied by Governor Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun State, visited the intensive care unit, the paediatric unit and general wards of the hospital.
While at the hospital, he was greeted with the sight of a baby girl in the paediatric ward whose mother, Deborah Stephen, broke into tears on seeing President Buhari. She told the president that the baby girl was shot by armed robbers who raided their home, adding that the family could not afford the medical bills.
President Buhari immediately directed his chief of staff, Mallam Abba Kyari, to settle the medical bill of the girl, which amounted to N268,790 (£890). As with the case of the Boko Haram victims, the girl too was a victim of the rampant insecurity in Nigeria.
Already, the Nigeria Labour Congress said the multiple bombings unleashed on innocent residents at Kuje and Nyanya towns in Abuja by terrorists was not only condemnable but also a call for communal vigilance by all residents. Peoples Democratic Party governors also condemned the bombings, describing it as cowardly, brutish and offensive to the collective well-being of all Nigerians, while Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor, the president of the Christian Association of Nigeria, condemned the attacks too.
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