President Muhammadu Buhari has strongly condemned what he calls “the unprovoked and cold-blooded murder of a Yobe State-based Islamic cleric Sheikh Goni Aisami, by a callous soldier he had offered a lift as confirmed by the Police.”
Reacting to the incident on Tuesday, President Buhari said that “this barbaric murder of a compassionate man by a soldier he had assisted has no place in our training as soldiers, and it negates the entire ethos of military life which is anchored on discipline and respect for the sanctity of innocent lives.”
A statement by the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity Mallam Garba Shehu said according to the President, “as the Commander-in- Chief, he is personally outraged by this criminal and wicked act by a law enforcement official trained to protect life.
He stated that the incident is capable of making fellow citizens to be fearful of assisting soldiers, thereby destroying the bond of trust between the country’s military and the civilians.
The President called on the military authorities to punish the perpetrators of this heinous crime without delay, and flush out other elements with such criminal tendencies.
He condoled with Yobe state government, people of the state and family of the victim of the tragedy.
BELLO WAKILI