OBAMA :the lasting bond” between the American people and Nigerians would only emerge stronger in the wake of the attack,

UNITED States (US) President, Barack Obama, has condemned the bombing of the United Nations building in Abuja, saying that “the lasting bond” between the American people and Nigerians would only emerge stronger in the wake of the attack, which he described as a “murderous act.”

In a release by the White House after the attack yesterday, Obama said: “I strongly condemn today’s horrific and cowardly attack on the United Nations headquarters building in Abuja, Nigeria, which killed and wounded many innocent civilians from Nigeria and around the world.”
Extending his “deepest sympathies” and that of the American people to the victims and their families, colleagues, and friends, Obama said Americans would keep them “in our thoughts and prayers.”

Commending the determination of UN staff, he said: “The people who serve the United Nations do so with a simple purpose: to try to improve the lives of their neighbours and promote the values on which the UN was founded — dignity, freedom, security, and peace.”

He said the UN has been working in partnership with the people of Nigeria for more than five decades, stressing that “an attack on Nigerian and international public servants demonstrates the bankruptcy of the ideology that led to this heinous action.”
Obama said “the United States strongly supports the work of the United Nations and its lasting bond with the people of Nigeria, a bond that will only emerge stronger in the wake of this murderous act.”