2014-07-01 12:22:00

Violence claims more lives in Nigeria


(Vatican Radio) At least eight people were killed on Tuesday in a bomb blast that hit a busy market in northeast Nigeria. There was no immediate claim of responsibility, but the Boko Haram group, which says it is fighting to establish an Islamist state in the country has claimed past attacks. A year-old government military operation against Boko Haram has so far failed to crush the rebels, whose insurgency has killed thousands since 2009, destabilising much of Nigeria’s northeast.

Listen to Cardinal John Onaiyekan, Archbishop of Abuja talking to Vatican Radio’s Xavier Sartre 

Speaking to Vatican Radio, Cardinal John Onaiyekan, said, “the motivation to really confront a group of determined terrorists is still lacking, we therefore need to pray not only for the end of terrorism but also for an improvement in our system of governance, for a sense of unity in our country.”

Tuesday’s blast comes after Nigeria’s military announced  it had arrested a businessman suspected of being at the head of a Boko Haram intelligence network that helped plan the abduction of more than 200 schoolgirls in the northeast in mid-April.

Violence has continued unabated in northeast Nigeria in particular, with hundreds killed in the past two months alone.

 








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