IDPs Escaped B/Haram Only To Be Killed By Authorities Who Should’ve Protected Them – Fayose

[caption id="attachment_15714" align="alignnone" width="699"]Governor Ayodele Fayose[/caption]

*Prays That Allah Forgives The Nigerian Army – 

Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State has decried the “accidental” bombing of internally displaced persons in the Rann IDPs camp in Borno State.

Fayose, while commiserating with families of the victims of the air strike by men of the Nigerian Air Force, scolded President Muhammadu Buhari for jumping into conclusion that the act was unintended.

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The governor therefore called on the international community to immediately investigate the death of the over 70 IDPs who died as a result of the airstrike.

In a statement by his Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, Governor Fayose noted that investigation was necessary with “a view to unravelling whether or not the air strike was a mistake.

“It is obvious that the Federal Government is still deceiving Nigerians on its handling of the Boko Ha­ram insurgency because it is strange that the same Boko Haram that they said had been defeated were the ones they claimed the military wanted to attack with fighter jet,” Fayose said late Wednesday.

“I sympathise with those hapless Nigerians who escaped death from the hands of Boko Ha­ram insurgents only to be killed by the same author­ities that should be pro­tecting them. May Allah (SWT) forgive their sins and grant them Al Jannah Fidau.

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“It is also my prayers that the Almighty Allah (SWT) will console their families and grant them the fortitude to bear the irreparable loss.

“I also call on all neces­sary authorities in Nigeria as well as the international community to investigate the incident with a view to unravelling whether or not the air strike was a mistake. And if it was in­deed a mistake, what led to it must be unravelled,” the governor said.

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