Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has assured President Roch Kabore and the people of Burkina Faso of Nigeria’s solidarity and support of Friday night’s terrorist attack on a hotel in Ouagadougou, the nation’s capital.
According to a statement by Mr. Femi Adesina, the President’s spokesman, Buhari his solidarity with Burkina Faso in a telephone conversation with Kabore on Saturday, January 16, 2016.
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Buhari has expressed shock over the terrorist attack on the Splendid Hotel in Ouagadougou in which 26 persons were killed and 56 injured.
“Accept my sympathy over what happened in your country. I am however glad to hear that your forces have rallied, and things are now under control,” Buhari was reported to have told Kabore.
He assured him that Nigeria will continue to work with Burkina Faso, other members of the Economic Community of West African States, the African Union and other peace-loving nations of the world to overcome the scourge of international terrorism.