Exercise Caution In Future Operations, Senate Advises Military

The Senate has advised the Nigerian military to exercise utmost caution in future military operations in the North East to avoid the killing of innocent Nigerians.

The Senate gave the advice following a point of order, raised by the Senate Leader, Ahmed Lawan at plenary.

He recalled that dozens of people were killed on Tuesday when an air force jet accidentally bombed the Rann IDPs camp, Kala Balge in Borno.

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The Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekeremadu, who presided over the plenary, said: “We only hope and pray that this will not happen again. We urge the military, especially the air force; to as much as possible ensure that this does not happen again.

“We are also conscious of the effort of our gallant soldiers, especially that which they have been making in the North-East. We believe this was completely unintended.”

Ekeremadu urged the military not to allow the sad incident dampen their morale from continuing in the good work they were doing.

The Deputy Senate President condoled with the families of the deceased, said, ”we send our big condolences to the families who lost their dear loved ones in that very unfortunate incident.”

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‘’No doubt, it was an obvious mistake.”

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