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President Bola Tinubu Calls For Investigation After Drone Attack Kills 85 by omojoibo: 11:58am On Dec 05, 2023 |
https://www.yahoo.com/news/nigerias-president-calls-investigation-drone-082821125.htmlBy Felix Onuah ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria's President Bola Tinubu on Tuesday called for a thorough investigation into a military drone attack that the state emergency agency in northern Kaduna state said killed at least 85 people at the weekend. The state's governor, a religious leader and witnesses told Reuters on Monday that dozens of civilians were killed following the military drone attack that was targeting insurgents and bandits on Sunday night. The Kaduna State Emergency Management Agency said on Tuesday at least 85 people had died during the attack, giving the first official confirmation of the toll from the weekend incident. "The Northwest Zonal Office has received details from the local authorities that 85 dead bodies have so far been buried while search is still ongoing," the agency said. Tinubu, who is attending the Cop28 Climate Summit in Dubai, said the "the bombing mishap" in a village at Tundun Biri, was "very unfortunate, disturbing, and painful," his spokesman Ajuri Ngelale said in a statement. "The President directs a thorough and full-fledged investigation into the incident and calls for calm while the authorities look diligently into the mishap," said Ngelale. The Nigerian Army is yet to comment on the incident but the Air Force has denied being involved in the mission that led to Sunday's attack. Nigeria's military, which is backed by the United States, Britain and other non-Western allies in a long war against Islamist insurgents in the northeast, has also been unleashing deadly aerial assaults for years in other parts of the country. Kaduna is 163 km (101 miles) from the capital Abuja. Beyond the war zone in the northeast, the army and air force has been called on to tackle the growing threat in Nigeria's northwest and central region, including in Kaduna state, posed by armed criminal gangs that spray villages with bullets and carry out mass kidnappings. (Additional reporting by Garba Muhammad in Kaduna; Editing by Sharon Singleton)
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Re: President Bola Tinubu Calls For Investigation After Drone Attack Kills 85 by LeoDeKing: 12:03pm On Dec 05, 2023 |
"The President directs a thorough and full-fledged investigation into the incident and calls for calm while the authorities look diligently into the mishap," I like this part of the report. |
Re: President Bola Tinubu Calls For Investigation After Drone Attack Kills 85 by immortalcrown(m): 12:03pm On Dec 05, 2023 |
It is intentional in the East and accidental in the North. The equality lies in the fact that what goes around comes around in many ways. |
Re: President Bola Tinubu Calls For Investigation After Drone Attack Kills 85 by SIXTEENTH(m): 12:04pm On Dec 05, 2023 |
We're still watching & waiting patiently |
Re: President Bola Tinubu Calls For Investigation After Drone Attack Kills 85 by MadamExcellency: 12:06pm On Dec 05, 2023 |
For the fact that any outcome of the investigation will end on paper hence I ask, what exactly will they investigate after the perpetrators have owned up to the mistake. Unless this is related to a hate crime, a lot of ethnic and religious politics has taken over the standard rules of engagement of the Nigerian military. Meaning, that the SOP will not change and no officer will be held accountable. |
Re: President Bola Tinubu Calls For Investigation After Drone Attack Kills 85 by 1TrippleCee: 12:16pm On Dec 05, 2023 |
MadamExcellency: You miss the point |
Re: President Bola Tinubu Calls For Investigation After Drone Attack Kills 85 by RepoMan007: 12:46pm On Dec 05, 2023 |
The comical army. |
Re: President Bola Tinubu Calls For Investigation After Drone Attack Kills 85 by Mynd44: 3:44pm On Dec 05, 2023 |
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