President Bola Tinubu of Nigeria on Tuesday ordered a probe into a miscalculated drone attack on the 85 civilians in Kaduna State on Sunday.
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) disclosed that about 85 innocent Tudun Biri natives, mostly children and women died
Tinubu while calling for “a thorough and full-fledged investigation”, described the bombing of 85 persons as “very unfortunate, disturbing, and painful”.
In his comment, Samuel Aruwan who is the Commissioner of Ministry of Internal Security and Home Affairs said the bombing, an aerial attack, was targeted at bandits who have been kidnapping and killing residents.
‘’The Nigerian army was on a routine mission against terrorists but unfortunately some members of the Tudun Biri community were affected.’
“We were celebrating Maulud when the airplane came and dropped the bomb, some died, some got injured and we all ran in to the house. When the men in the village heard what happened, they came out to check and that was when they dropped the second one and more people died’’.
In his apologetic statement, the spokesman for Nigeria’s Defense Headquarters, Maj. Gen. Edward Buba promised that the Nigeria Army would pay the hospital bills of the victims.
We would take care of the victims, and their hospital bills.
“Terrorists often deliberately embed themselves within civilian population centers,”, saying that troops carrying out aerial patrols observed a group of people and “wrongly analyzed and misinterpreted their pattern of activities to be similar to that of the bandits”.
