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  President Goodluck Jonathan on Wednesday deplored Tuesday’s attack by suspected terrorists on Bama, Borno State, which claimed no fewer than 55 lives.
  
  Also, the Action Congress of Nigeria, the Arewa Consultative Forum and the Minister of Interior, Abba Moro, joined other Nigerians on Wednesday in condemning the massacre.
  
  In a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Dr. Reuben Abati, the President, who is currently attending the World Economic Forum on Africa in South Africa, said the continuous attacks on innocent Nigerians flew in the face of ongoing efforts to work out a framework for dialogue.
  
  The statement read, “President Goodluck Jonathan deplores yesterday’s (Tuesday’s) attack by armed terrorists on Bama, Borno State, which claimed scores of lives.
  
  “The President warns that the Federal Government’s consideration of dialogue as an option for the elimination of some current threats to security should not be seen as a weakening of its resolve and determination to use all the forces at its disposal to crush all brazen affronts to the powers and sovereignty of the Nigerian nation.”
  
  ACN, in a statement on Wednesday, by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said the attack was barbaric.
  
  It said the attack brought to the fore the need for all stakeholders  to end the daily carnage in some parts of the North.
  
  The opposition party said while every human life was sacrosanct, it was particularly saddened by the mindless killing of security personnel in the course of their duties.
  
  The party stated, ‘‘Nothing in the world can justify the kind of killings we have witnessed in recent times, and it is high time those who are behind these orgy of violence stopped and retraced their steps.
  
  “Bama killings, coming about three weeks after the Baga massacre, portrays Nigeria as a country where human life has little or no value.
  
  “This unflattering portrayal can only have negative consequences for our country, which needs all the goodwill of its global partners, all the foreign investments it can muster, as well as an environment conducive for urgent growth and development.”
  
  National Publicity Secretary of ACF, Mr. Anthony Sani, in a statement in Kaduna on Wednesday  said the attack on Bama was unjustifiable, considering the fact that the authority had accepted dialogue aimed at addressing the current crisis in some parts of the North.
  
  The forum appealed to the sect to lay down their arms and embrace dialogue as a means of resolving the crisis.
  
  The statement said, “The reported attacks of Bama in Borno state by gunmen which resulted in the death of many people and loss of property is as unjustifiable as it is seriously condemnable, precisely because it has no imaginable aim, considering the acceptance of dialogue by the authority through which all grievances can be addressed for the good of all parties and for all Nigerians.”
  
  Moro expressed sadness  over the  killings of 13 officers of Nigerian Prisons Service  including the Chief Superintendent in charge of  the Prisons in Bama and the subsequent release of 105 inmates
  
  The minister, in a statement, said he was seriously worried that the dastardly act was committed only a few months after the killings of some prisons officers in similar manner by suspected members of the sect.
  
  He urged security agencies in the country to stop at nothing in unravelling the identities of those behind the heinous acts.
  
  The Director of Army Public Relations, Brig. Gen. Ibrahim Attahiru, on Tuesday explained how suspected members of the Boko Haram Islamic carried out the attacks in security formations in  Bama, Borno State.
  
  Attahiru, who spoke during the monthly press conference of the Nigerian Army Directorate of Information, said the militants dressed in military fatigue, carried out the attacks of the security formations with high calibre arms and ammunition.
  
  He said however that operatives of the JTF recovered “four vehicles, 14 weapons, 12 IEDS, assorted ammunition, several RPG tubes and bombs.”
  
  By the account of Army, the operation resulted in the death of 21 BHTs, six police officers, 14 prison personnel, two soldiers, four civilians, including three children and a woman.
  
  According to him, operatives of the JTF have arrested an unspecified number of insurgents in connection with the Bama attacks.
  
  Meanwhile, security agencies are yet to re-arrest any of the 105 inmates of Bama prisons, that escaped on Tuesday.
  
  It was gathered that security personnel, including soldiers, policemen and State Security Service personnel, who were on a manhunt for the fleeing inmates, had yet to apprehend any of them.
  
  Moro had  met  with the Controller- General  of Nigeria Prisons Service, Mr Zakari Ibrahim, and other   top Prisons officials  in the country to review the incident as well as appraise the entire security situation of the NPS nationwide.
  
  When contacted on Wednesday,  Media Assistant to the interior minister, George Udoh, said he was yet to get any briefing on the incident, but promised to get in touch with our correspondent if he got any update.