The Federal Government ordered yesterday investigations into Tuesday’s attack on Nigerian Embassy in Guinea Bissau.
A Nigerian was said to have died and several others injured.
Briefing State House correspondents at
the end of the Federal Executive Council meeting yesterday, the Special
Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Dr. Reuben Abati
described the incident as barbaric and inhuman.
Stressing that President Goodluck
Jonathan and members of the Federal Executive Council deliberated on the
incidence yesterday, he said that the President directed the Nigerian
Ambassador to Guinea Bissau to begin full scale investigation in to the
case and unravel reasons behind the attacks.
He said the Nigerian Ambassador is to
meet with his counterpart in the foreign affairs ministry in Guinea
Bissau in carrying out the investigations.
He said: “When the incident happened,
the Ambassador in Guinea Bissau waded in to the matter and protested to
the authorities and said that it is unacceptable. You can be rest
assured that this government is committed to the protection of the lives
of Nigerians wherever they are either within or in Diaspora”
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