The National Security Council of Nigeria has announced that the Islamic State West African province, ISWAP, is responsible for last Sunday’s terror attack on St. Francis Catholic Church in Owo, Ondo state.

This was disclosed at the end of the National Security Council meeting in Abuja presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari.

Briefing state house correspondents after the meeting, Minister of Interior, Alhaji Rauf Aregbesola said security agencies, especially the Police had been directed to apprehend the perpetrators.

He disclosed that security agencies, particularly the police, have been directed to apprehend the perpetrators. The former governor said the attack has no ethnic-religious connection, affirming that the group’s activity has nothing to do with religion.

The council, according to him, is also concerned about killings in the name of blasphemy and has directed the security agencies to go after perpetrators of the incidents that occurred in Sokoto State and Abuja recently.

Similarly, the Inspector General of Police, Usman Alkali Baba equally noted the imprints of the perpetrators of the Owo killings have been identified and although no arrests have been made, security agencies are now zeroing in on them.


Channels/Oluwakayode Banjo

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