Health and rescue officials, who confirmed Tuesday’s bombings, said 78 people were taken away injured from the Dikwa IDPs camp. Dikwa is 85 kilometres outside Maiduguri, the Borno State capital.
There are about 50,000 IDPs in the camp, it was learnt.
Officials blamed Boko Haram for the bombings which, was not known about until yesterday because of the disruption to telephone services.
The governor of neighboring Cameroon’s Far North province said two suicide bombers believed to have come from Nigeria also yesterday killed 10 people and injured 40 in a border village.
Meanwhile,Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, has expressed his profound condolences to the families of the victims of yesterday’s suicide bombing of an IDP camp in Dikwa, Borno State, and also the entire people and government of the state.
His prayers are that the Almighty God will comfort them and grant the injured persons quick recovery.
The Vice President
stated that it is indeed regrettable that the heartless terrorists chose to
unleash their wickedness on people who were taking refuge from previous acts of
destruction in their homes.
He reassured the
nation that the full weight of the federal government’s force will be deployed
to hunt down the perpetrators of this evil act and also to confront terrorists
continuously in the protection of life, liberty and property of all Nigerians:
there will be no hiding place for terrorists.
Prof. Osinbajo
has given directives that formidable security in and around the IDP Camps in
the country be beefed up and renewed measures put in place to guard against
future occurrences.
Finally, the Vice President called on the people of Borno State and all
Nigerians that the commitment of the federal government to safety of lives and
property continues to be of paramount concern to the Buhari administration.
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