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[JUST IN] National Security Council Blames Owo Church Attack On ISWAP

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Jun 9, 2022.

Yinka Akanbi

Forty persons died in the Owo church attack while 26 survivors have been discharged from hospitals in the area
The council is also concerned about killings in the name of blasphemy and has directed the security agencies to go after perpetrators

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EKO HOT BLOG reports that the National security Council has declared that the Islamic State, West African Province (ISWAP) as the perpetrator of an attack on St. Francis Catholic Church, Owo, that led to the death of about 38 persons on Sunday June 5, 2022.

Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, made this known on Thursday while briefing State House Correspondents after the National Security Council meeting in Abuja.

He announced that security agencies, particularly the police, have been directed to apprehend the perpetrators.

Aregbesola 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.

In corroboration, Inspector General of Police, Usman Alkali Baba also added that the imprints of the perpetrators of the Owo killings have been identified and although no arrests have been made, security agencies are now closing in on them.

The meeting was presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari, four days after scores of persons were killed in the attack and several others wounded.

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Recall that the Ondo State Government, on Wednesday, said 40 persons died in the incident while 26 survivors have been discharged from hospitals in the area.

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