Free Education for Madalla Blast Orphans- Nigerian govt.

Abba Moro
The Nigerian Minister of Interior

Free Education for Madalla Blast Orphans- Nigerian govt.

The Nigerian Government has announced that it will sponsor the education of children, who lost their parents in the Christmas day bomb blast at St.Theresa’s Catholic Church in Madalla, Suleja Local Government, Niger State in northern Nigeria.

The Minister of Interior, Abba Moro said during a visit to members of the church, that the President Goodluck Jonathan was disturbed by the attack and promised that the government was determined to get to the root of the various bomb attacks in the country.

He also told some parishioners in attendance that the Nigerian Government was also determined to sponsor the bomb’s victims that sustained serious injuries for treatment abroad.

The minister said that the government was disturbed by the incessant bombings in some states in the country, and assured that government was working towards ensuring that security was improved.

Assuring church members that they were not alone in the pains inflicted by the suicide bombers, Moro promised to visit the bomb blast victims that were currently receiving treatment at the National Hospital, Gwagwalada Specialist Hospital and other identified hospitals in the Federal Capital Territory.

From the parish Priest

Responding, the parish Priest, Reverend Farther Isaac Achi, said he was not in church during the morning mass on the fateful day, but rushed there when he was told to find the whole place in chaos.

According to him, “when I got to church, I saw several corpses on the ground at the frontage of the church gate.”

He, however, told the minister that the church was yet to ascertain the level of the damage on the church and the exact number of the causalities from his church.

No official casualty figure has been given ,but there has been rise from the sunday figure.

Meanwhile, a short mass has been held for the victims of the bomb blast in the church.

For 13-year-old, Miss Nancy Maduka, the last child of the Maduka family, the decision not to attend the Christmas day early morning mass was the saving grace that kept her alive.

She lost her father, Francis; her mother, Jennifer and two elder sisters in the bomb blast.

Now living with the parish sisters, Nancy was a pity sight on Sunday, but still hopeful.

According to her “I don’t know why this happens, but since this is the way the good Lord wants it, let it be. All I know is that all hope is not lost. I strongly believe this is not the end of the world for me. I know God has a plan for me to have speared my life,”

Investigation has commenced into the bomb blast .Meanwhile ,the entire road leading to the bomb site has been cordoned off.

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