Zambarmari Massacre: Senate President, COS, Others Pay Condolence Visit To Borno State (Photos)

Senate President, Dr. Ahmed Lawan, Chief of Staff to the president, Professor Ibrahim Gambari, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu and other high level officials paid condolence visit to the people of Borno State on Monday, following the recent Boko Haram killing of 43 farm workers in the state, IgbereTV reports.

Garba Shehu disclosed this on his Twitter handle. He wrote:

"A team of high level officials representing the Executive and Legislative arms of government was in Maiduguri on Monday to deliver a message of condolence and solidarity with the government and people of Borno State following the recent Boko Haram killing of 43 farm workers.

The Senate President, Dr. Ahmed Lawan spoke for the team and the Chief of Staff, Professor Ibrahim Gambari representing President Muhammadu Buhari presented a joint message, on behalf of the President, the government and people of Nigeria to the Governor, the Shehu of Borno, and the bereaved Zabarmari community, describing the massacre of the farm workers as the worst form of “senseless, barbaric and gruesome murder.”

In the message, President Buhari expressed the condolences of the government and people of Nigeria and gave strong assurances of his continuous commitment to fighting insurgency and all forms of insecurity in Borno State and all over Nigeria.

The President committed himself to making more resources available to the military to prosecute the war, adding that he will “work closely with neighbouring countries on bilateral and multilateral levels to ensure that there is no hiding place for the terrorists.

“Nothing is more important than ensuring the security of lives and property of the people. Everything is secondary when security is at a stake.

“As we mourn the loss of our sons in Zabarmari, the Armed Forces have been given the marching order to take the fight to the insurgents, not on a one-off, but on a continuous basis until we root out the terrorists,” said the President.

President Buhari commended Governor Babagana Zulum for his leadership in running the affairs of the state.

In his response, Governor Zulum thanked the President for “ensuring relative peace since his assumption of office,” stating clearly that the situation is much better than he met it.

The Governor presented a number of requests on behalf of his people, including that the youths of the state should be enlisted in military and paramilitary organizations to play their roles in the defence of the nation.

He called on the FG to assist in the repatriation of Borno indigenes in camps in neighbouring countries & requested the Nat’l Assembly to tweak the draft budget now before them to allow better allocation of resources for the N-East sub-region, which he alleged is being side-lined

At the palace of the Shehu of Borno, His Eminence Abubakar Umar Ibn Garbai, the traditional ruler described as “madness,” the gruesome killings and urged his subjects to pray and offer useful information to the security agencies.

He thanked President Buhari for his efforts in returning normalcy to the state.

“Before this administration came, all 27 local councils and the Emirs had migrated to Maiduguri. We had no power from the National Grid, Telephone services were discontinued and the airport was closed,” he said, commending the President for changing all that for the better.

The delegation was also in Zabarmari, Jere Local Government where the incident took place.

The local Imam, Alhaji Idris who responded on behalf of the community said they were touched by the President’s gesture, saying, “we are happy that the President is with us in our moment of grief. Tell him that we are very happy with him.”

Aside the Senate President and Chief of Staff to the President, the delegation included the House Majority Whip, Tahir Monguno, the Ministers of the Federal Capital Territory, Muhammed Musa Bello, Communications and Digital Economy, Dr. Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami,

Minister of Agriculture (State), Mustapha Shehuri and Works and Housing (State), Engineer Abubakar Aliyu.

Others are National Security Adviser, Major General Babagana Monguno (Rtd) and the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu."

https://twitter.com/GarShehu/status/1333460628678303745?s=19

Welcome to Maiduguri.

The only thing they are good at

Nigeria is not a serious country.

If Nigeria had been a serious country, these old fools would have removed obviously incompetent Buhari from office a long time ago.

What they know how to do best...smh

Do something. They even went with these their photographers that like adding filters to their photos. Make people continue to die so una fit dey do photo shoot without action? God save the ordinary Nigerian.

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Audio condolence...

What they don't know is that, boko guys now know how to hit hard on them, more of this massacre will happen again to them until the northern youth put aside religion that has put them captive and face this monsters (boko, bandits).

In the North, it is easy for almajiris to join boko

Happy New Month Everyone..

Bull crap, that doesn't help

You people should continue deceiving unaself.

We are watching with 4D

Buhari is less concern because Yusuf is not involved among those massacred.

this is all they can do, somehow this fools think this counts for something.

A very sad day in our nation.
May their soul Rest in Peace.

.......and UN retract......

The worst place to be born in life(Nigeria)
God save our soul.

The bandits have spread all over the country. Last week my pastors secretary was abducted by these men somewhere around Urhonigbe (boundary town between Edo and Delta).

As much as we can we should try and desist from travelling in flashy cars over long distances this period.



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Why does this president find it so hard to get first hand info and assess the impact of somethings himself?
What will it take him to visit Maiduguri, go to the affected community and show some empathy while promising to protect them?
This has got to be the most hard hearted president to rule this country. He is never alive to his responsibilities as a leader.

Kachy1605:
The worst place to be born in life(Nigeria).

What you wish for yourself will surely come for you.
This is the rule of life.

I hope that place is safe

Reactionary

Yenefer:
Welcome to Maiduguri.

Hmmm

I read somewhere that their youths should join military and paramilitary in this passage. this government na Tom cruise

Why is that soldier holding hand sanitizer and not fighting, NAwa for this country

Very good, they will cry small, snap pictures, their zombies here will sing their praises and Boko Haram will kill another set next month.

Bunch of failures. They should have ply Damaturu -Maiduguri road to feel the tension people goes through while passing the road instead of flying.

If you never refer to the last administration, your speech is yet to begin. Blame game, that's what you are good at. Ndi uchu!

Sadly, what happened in Borno is fake news, it is sponsored by politicians and southerners to discredit the government because he is from the North. Northerners should support their own.

Right now I can't recall one thing that is going right in this country, if u can, please remind me....indeed Nigeria is a failed project!