Boko Haram has killed another worker of the International Committee of the Red Cross, ICRC.
PREMIUM TIMES reported how the ICRC on Sunday raised alarm that the Boko Haram threatened to kill Hauwa Liman within the next 24 hours.
Ms Liman was kidnapped alongside others in March in Rann, Borno State, when the insurgents attacked a camp for displaced persons.
One of the kidnapped aid workers, Saifura Khorsa, had been killed in September.
Reacting to the murder of Ms Liman, the Nigerian government said it is shocked and saddened at the Monday killing.
The government said the aid worker was killed despite the actions taken by the government and the widespread appeal to save the young woman.
After the September murder of Ms Khorsa, the Boko Haram released a video threatening to kill Ms Liman and Leah Sharibu, one of the schoolgirls abducted at Government Secondary School, Dapchi in Yobe State last year.
In a statement issued in London on Monday, the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, described Monday’s killing as “dastardly, inhuman and ungodly”, saying nothing can justify the shedding of the blood of innocent people.
He commiserated with the family of the aid worker and said the federal government did all within its powers to save her life.
