It would be recalled that no fewer than 13 persons were killed and another 22 wounded in the early morning mayhem on worshippers.
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The Bishop of the Diocese, Most Rev. Hilary Okeke, who announced the donation on Wednesday, said each of the 44 affected victims would get N50,000 each.
Senator Chris Ngige, the Minister for Labour and Employment, said this in Amakwa, Ozubulu in Ekwusigo council when he led a delegation to commiserate with the people and government of Anambra State on Saturday.
The National Chairman of the party, Victor Oye, made the refutation when Anambra Governor, Willie Obiano, came to the National Secretariat of the party in Abuja to submit his nomination form.
According to the police, 11 persons died while 18 others sustained injuries when a gunman attacked the Church in the early hours of the fateful day.
The Police had confirmed 12 people dead and many injured after the attack by unknown gunmen on worshippers in an early morning Mass at St. Philip’s Catholic Church, Ozubulu.
This is just as Chidoka, in mourning for those killed in the attack, cancelled all his political engagements earlier scheduled for Sunday and Monday.
Osinbajo’s assurance is contained in a statement issued by Laolu Akande, the Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to the Acting President.
Gnmen on Sunday attacked worshipers at the St. Philips Catholic Church, Ozubulu, in Ekwusigo Local Government Area of Anambra State, killing no fewer than 20 persons and leaving scores injured.
Umar told newsmen on Monday that the number of arrest would not be disclosed so as not to jeopardise ongoing investigation into the massacre of 11 persons by unknown gunmen.
The Minister of Interior, retired Lieutenant General Abdulrahman Dambazau, made the pledge in a statement signed by the Director Press in the Ministry, Willie Bassey, on Monday in Abuja.
Ovrawah in a statement signed by Fatimah Mohammad, the Head, Media Relations of the commission, in Abuja on Monday described the killing as unacceptable, adding that there was no justification for it.
Obi in a statement by his Media Office described such barbarism as being alien to Igbo people, saying that it should be condemned by all men of good will.
MURIC, in a statement by its Director, Prof. Ishaq Akintola, denounced what it termed the “wanton massacre of innocent people”
Adewole assured the Governor of the State, Willie Obiano, that his Ministry was monitoring the events and had placed on standby a team that can be urgently deployed to beef up services in the Nnamdi Azikwe University Teaching Hospital, Nnewi, if the need arises.
Expressing his grief in a strongly worded statement issued by the the Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu, President Buhari said: “There was no justification whatsoever to target Church worshippers and kill them in cold blood.”
In a statement signed by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Yusuph Olaniyonu, Saraki stated that the killing of worshippers represents the purest kind of evil, and the security services must not stop until the perpetrators are brought to justice.
Dogara made the remark in a statement issued on Sunday in Abuja by his Special Adviser on Media and Public Affairs, Turaki Hassan.
Speaking in a statement by his Special Assistant, Peter Eze, Kalu said the attack is the worst form of barbarism and wickedness on South East soil.