Oct. 28 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The president of Nigeria, Muhamadu Buhari, has called for calm after the wave of alerts issued by international diplomatic missions about the possibility of a terrorist attack in the country’s capital, Abuja.
“Unfortunately, terror is a reality throughout the world. However, that does not mean that an attack in Abuja is imminent,” the president said in a statement published by his spokesman, Garba Shehu.
Throughout this week, the embassies of the United States, the United Kingdom and other countries such as Spain, Denmark, Ireland, Bulgaria, Finland and Germany had warned of information about a possible attack in the capital, with the consequent risk to its citizens in the African country.
Before the president spoke, the Nigerian government had already deplored these warnings, which only fueled “unnecessary tension and panic,” Information Minister Lai Mohamed lamented last Tuesday.
Buhari, in his statement this Friday, has assured that “the security of Nigerians remains the government’s top priority” and that “the security services are working 24 hours a day to keep the situation under control,” according to the note collected by the ‘Premium Times’.
On the other hand, the State Security Service (SSS) has confirmed that its security personnel carried out a search operation on a farm in the capital this past Monday, without giving further details, although it has denied that they carried it out with the support of the US military, as Nigerian media initially pointed out.
“I can tell you categorically that we did not conduct any joint operations with US soldiers as was widely reported in the media,” SSS spokesman Peter Afunanya said.
