Buhari condemns Saudi violence, seeks global action against terror

Bombings barbaric, ungodly, says Shehu Sani

President Muhammadu Buhari has condoled with Saudi Arabia over the multiple suicide bombings in the country, the latest being the Monday explosion near the Prophet’s Holy Mosque in Madinah, Islam’s second holiest city.

The president, in a statement yesterday in Abuja through his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, described the development as a desecration of all that was sacred in Islam.

He said, “The merchants of evil have once again shown that there is nothing religious in their mindless acts, by striking near the Prophet’s mosque. It validates the claim that terrorism really has nothing to do with Islam. Purveyors of terror are simply agents of the devil.”

“The fact that the Madinah bombing came the same day as a suicide bomber struck near the US Consulate in Jeddah, also in Saudi Arabia, shows that it was an orchestrated plan to foul up the Eid-el-Fitr celebration,” President Buhari asserted.

He urges nations to remain vigilant, “so that we can collectively beat the forces of darkness on the prowl round the globe.”

Buhari stressed that terrorism no longer respects international boundaries, and charges humanity to rise as one body “to excise this vermin from our body polity, and assert our liberty from those who pander to base and vicious instincts.”

“With our collective resolve, we shall beat terrorism. Around the world and around the clock, let us be alert. And we would remain free and safe,” the President said.

Also condemning the Saudi attack, human rights activist and Vice Chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs, Senator Shehu Sani said that the bombing of the holy city should spark the world to a new coordinated and concerted effort to combat terror.

Senator Sani, while lamenting on the multiple bomb attack in the city of Medina and other places in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia yesterday, said in a statement, “Those who perpetrated this evil are satanic, ungodly and barbaric.”

He said, “Its time for the people of the world to abandon its petty social, economic, political, religious or doctrinaire differences to collectively stand up against this common evil, ”