The president said the bodies of the dead were hurriedly buried before their nationalities could be confirmed. President Muhammadu Buhari has reacted to the story of the 26 Nigerian girls and women who were allegedly sexually abused and murdered while trying to cross the Mediterranean into Europe earlier in November, remarking that only three of them were properly identified.During an interactive session with members of the Nigerian community in Abidjan, on the sidelines of the 5th AU-EU Summit in Cote D’Ivoire, on Tuesday, November 28, 2017, the president said the bodies of the dead were hurriedly buried before their nationalities could be confirmed.According to a statement signed by the president’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, he said, “When it was announced that 26 Nigerians died recently in the Mediterranean, before they proved that they were all Nigerians they buried them.”But the evidence I have from the Senior Special Assistant on Diaspora and Foreign Affairs, (Mrs.
