By Editor
Last Sunday Owo CatholicChurch, attack has been linked to the fighters of the Islamic State of West Africa Province (ISWAP), InfantNG learnt.
No fewer than 40 worshippers were killed while others injured during Sunday’s attack on St. Francis Catholic Church, Owo, Ondo State.
The Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, Thursday said that the government had been able to locate the perpetrators of the Owo attack and zeroed in on ISWAP terrorist group.
The minister, who briefed alongside Inspector-General of Police, Alkali Baba Usman, said security agencies had been directed to go after the perpetrators of the act and bring them to justice.
The minister said the group was out to pitch Nigerians against one another and make it appear as ethno-religious war.
He said there was no ethnic agenda in the attack, urging Nigerians to unite and defeat the terrorists.