Buhari calls for intensified collaborative efforts against terrorism after Paris attacks

Buhari calls for intensified collaborative efforts against terrorism after Paris attacks

Buhari calls for intensified collaborative efforts against terrorism after Paris attacks

Nigeria’s president Muhammadu Buhari on
Saturday called on world leaders to intensify
collaborative efforts to combat the scourge of
terrorism across the world after a series of fatal
attacks claimed by Islamic State were unleashed
on France.
France’s President Francois Hollande
described the attacks as ‘act of war’.
“President Buhari calls on all peace-
loving nations of the world to intensify
ongoing multilateral cooperation and
collaborative actions aimed at bringing
the scourge of international terrorism to
a speedy end for the benefit of all
nations.” his media aide Garba Shehu
said in statement on Saturday.
Shehu noted that the President was
shocked by the attacks and
commiserated with the government and
the people of France.
Shehu said “President Buhari has
received with great shock & profound
sadness, news of the dastardly terrorist
attacks on innocent civilians in Paris. On
behalf of the government and people of
the Federal Republic of Nigeria,
President Buhari conveys his heartfelt
sympathy to President Francois Hollande
and the people France.”
France was in a nationwide state of
emergency Saturday after a night of
horror in Paris when gunmen sprayed
restaurants with bullets, massacred
scores of concert-goers and launched
suicide attacks near the national
stadium, killing at least 128 people,
according an AFP report.
At least eight militants, all wearing
suicide vests, brought unprecedented
violence to the streets of the French
capital, in the bloodiest attacks in
Europe since the Madrid train bombings
in 2004.
Armed with AK47s and shouting “Allahu
akbar”, four of the group marched into a
rock concert at the Bataclan venue in
eastern Paris, murdering at least 82
people and taking dozens hostage.