Buhari Commiserates With Nnewi Gas Victims, Condoles
Lamido, CBN Gov.
President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed deep regret over
the loss of lives following Thursday’s gas explosion at an industrial complex
in Nnewi, Anambra, The Sun reports.
A statement issued in Abuja on Friday by the President’s
Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu, said the president
was greatly shaken and shocked by such large-scale loss of human lives in a
single industrial accident.
According to the statement, Buhari sympathised with the
families of the victims “who were looking forward to a joyous Christmas
celebration’’.
The president extended his condolences to the families of
the victims, the people and the government of Anambra over what he described as
“this unfortunate tragedy on Christmas eve’’.
“My heart and prayers go to these grieving families at this
difficult and painful moment,’’ the statement quoted the president as saying.
The statement revealed that President Buhari also
commiserated with the Lamido of Adamawa, Alhaji Barkindo Mustafa, over the
death of his mother, Hajiya Adda Gombeji, who passed on at the age of 87.
“He has placed a call to condole with the Governor of the
Central Bank, Godwin Emefiele, who has equally lost his own mother.
“The President personally made the phone calls to the
Lamido of Adamawa and Emefiele to express his sympathy to the monarch and the
CBN governor over the death of their mothers,’’ the statement added.
Buhari described a mother as, “an invaluable component of
family life, and the pillar and comforter of the children’’.
He prayed to Allah to bless the souls of the deceased, and
grant the Lamido, Godwin Emefiele and other members of their families the
fortitude to overcome the losses.
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