There
was an outpouring of emotions on Thursday at Adazi-Nnukwu, Anambra
State, as hundreds of people showed up for the burial of the 13 victims
of the suspected Boko Haram attacks of December 28, 2011, January 5 and
January 6 in Mubi, Adamawa State.
The victims, 12 men and one woman, were
killed by gunmen days after Boko Haram claimed resposiblities for the
killing of dozens of Christian worshippers at Madalla, near Abuja, and
Jos, Plateau State on Christmas Day. One of the victims was from Agulu,
while the 12 others came from Adazi Nnukwu.
The President General of the Adazi
NnukwuTown Development Union, Chief B.C. Enemuo, faulted the comments
credited to the Adamawa State Government that the deceased were killed
over business deals.
“The cold blooded massacre of Adazi
Nnukwu citizens on the 5th and 6th January 2012 absolutely had nothing
to do with business disagreements or leadership contest as is being
foisted on the minds of the general public by callous and insensitive
agents of the ex-Governor Murtala Nyako’s administration,” Enemuo said.
The community also called for adequate compensation for the families of all those killed in the Mubi attack.
The Catholic Bishop of Awka, Rev.
Paulinus Ezeokafor, who preached at the burial mass, said while other
nations were contending with natural disasters, Nigeria was in the
throes of human disaster perpetrated by Boko Haram.
“It is painful and shocking to have to
bury 13 people whose lives have been wasted by deranged individuals. But
they are all Catholics who died in the Lord. May their soils rest in
the bosom of the Lord,” he said.
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