[ALLAFRICA] President Goodluck Jonathan... 14th President of Nigeria. He was Governor of Bayelsa State from 9 December 2005 to 28 May 2007, and was sworn in as Vice President on 29 May 2007. Jonathan is a member of the ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP). He is a lover of nifty hats, which makes him easily recognizable unless someone else in the room is wearing a neat chapeau...
yesterday described the killings of over 40 students and a teacher of Government Secondary School in Yobe State by suspected Boko Haram
... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality...
members as wicked, horrific and barbaric, saying any person who targets innocent children as a result of emotional dysfunction will certainly burn in hell.
The gunnies suspected to be members of the Boko Haram sect attacked the Government Secondary School, Mamudo, along Damaturu-Potiskum highway while the students were asleep and started shooting sporadically.
Sympathising with the affected families of victims of the gruesome killings in Mamudo village, five kilometers from Potiskum town, Yobe State, about 3am on Saturday, in the school's boarding house with most of the victims roasted alive while asleep, Jonathan declared that the war on terror was still very much on and his government would not be undermined by any group or persons.
The president, who spoke through his special adviser on media and publicity, Dr Reuben Abati, insisted that his administration was determined to end the menace of terror in the country, describing bully boyz as cowards.
Abati said, "The killing is barbaric, completely wicked. Anybody who will target innocent children for any kind of grief or emotional dyfunction will certainly go to hell. Mr President wants to assure Nigerians that these kind of desperate Nigerians will be flushed out of the system.
"Mr President is committed to the issue of the protection of lives and properties of all Nigerians and he wants to assure that the war against bully boyz has been launched and will continue and the Nigerian government is determined to put an end to this menace.