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COAS Visits Tudun Biri Village Over Civilians Bombing In Kaduna ~ OsazuwaAkonedo
Dec 5, 2023
COAS Visits Tudun Biri Village Over Civilians Bombing In Kaduna ~ OsazuwaAkonedo https://osazuwaakonedo.news/coas-visits-tudun-biri-village-over-civilians-bombing-in-kaduna/05/12/2023/ Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Taoreed Lagbaja, on Tuesday, paid a condolence visit to Tudun Biri community in Igabi Local Government Area of Kaduna
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chief of Army staff Lieutenant General T
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laa on Tuesday p a condolence visit to
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tun biri community in igabi local
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government area of kaduna St where over
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85 person were killed in armed drones
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attacked by men of the Nigerian Army
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photographs made available by the
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Nigerian Army few minutes ago indicated
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that the chief of Army staff also
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visited the graveyard where the deceased
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victims were buried director army public
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relations Brigadier General OA what you
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who met the Army news release available
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said that Lieutenant General laa stated
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that the troops were carrying out aial
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patrols when they observed a group of
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people wrongly analyzed and
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misinterpreted to be Bandits before the
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Drone strike accordingly the Army Chief
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expressed regrets and apologized on
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behalf of the Nigerian Army to the
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people of the community the Army news
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release read the Army Chief arrived the
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community in the early hours of Tuesday
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December 5th 2023 accompanied by
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principal staff officers from the Army
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Headquarters and the general officer
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commanding One Division where he met
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with the dangal adimar Zaza The District
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head of rasa architect aminu Idris other
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leaders and members of the community the
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C in an emotion leing speech Express
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regrets on the unfortunate mishap
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describing it as a very disheartening
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occurrence General laa noted that in the
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recent past the general area of sudon
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biri and adjoining Villages were
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infested with armed Bandits who
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terrorized the communities until troops
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of the Nigerian Army started conducting
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operations to sanitize the area and make
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it habitable he pointed out that the
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troops were carrying out AEL patrols
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when they observed a group of people and
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wrongly analyzed and misinterpreted
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their pattern of activities to be
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similar to that of the bandits before
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the Drone strike the co stated that he
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was in tunir to personally witness the
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sight of the mishab and to conest
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sincere regrets and unreserved apologies
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on behalf of the Nigerian Army to the
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district District head and people of the
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community as well as the government and
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entire people of kaduna St he disclosed
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that he has ordered a thorough inquiry
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into the incident to assertain and
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identify areas of deficiency that led to
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the inadvertent disaster adding that the
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findings and overing outcome of the
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investigation will guide the Nigerian
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Army in meticulously and professionally
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seeking and applying lasting solutions
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to identifi lapses and deficiencies in
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both the human and artificial
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intelligence variables that will to stop
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future recurrence the chief of Army
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staff equally visited affected victims
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at the barad teaching Hospital angan
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Remy kaduna where he expressed concern
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for the Speedy recuperation of the
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hospitalized persons and made an
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immediate donation of several provision
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for their upkeep the statement further
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read that the district head of rasa
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aminu Idris said despite the enormity of
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the incident the Nigerian Army showed
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Integrity in accepting responsibility
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for the Drone strike and all its
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leadership to intervene in bringing
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supper to hospitalize victims and the
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community for their losses meanwhile
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former kaduna Central Senator shahani
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has condemned The Accidental bombing of
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villagers in sudum biri in the igabi
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local government area of kaduna St
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saying that it makes no sense to
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Massacre the people who are supposed to
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be under the protection of the military
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s met this known in a tweet shared on
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his verified ex- handle on Tuesday
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Senator shahani said the sanctity of
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human life must be of the highest
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consideration in any military oppression
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he said dropping bombs in a crowd of
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people in the center of a village is a
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horrible and costly mistake that must
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not be taken lightly it makes no sense
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to Massacre the people you want to
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protect the orphans widows and widowers
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left behind by the Army bombing of the
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kaduna village must not be left to
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suffer in the course of their lives this
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tragic incident must not repeat itself
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the of December
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2023 while uh the nigan Army
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UAV platforms were
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conducting armed recognisance around the
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vicinity of
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rwa
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rumor
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the Drone observe uh the movement of
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people suspected to be Bandits and I
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haven't trailed them for for some time
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decision was taken to conduct a strike
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based on the observation of some tactics
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usually employed by Bandit unfortunately
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the reports uh we got thereafter
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revealed that it it was inocent
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civilians that the Drone conducted a
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strike on and
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so with uh the report emerging I feel it
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is very essential to come physically to
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the ground first to commiserate with uh
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the people of toiri that suffered the
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unfortunate incident of the nigeran army
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drone strike on uh the third of December
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2023 leading to loss of lives and
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secondly having accessed uh the
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situation on the ground myself to be
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able to determine
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the kind of inquiry that will be
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conducted by the nigeran Army to forall
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reoccurrence of this kind of unfortunate
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incident forward and uh also
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to look around uh these uh community and
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even extending Beyond to be able to
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determine the kind of uh operations we
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need to conduct going forward and that
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is uh the sole purpose of uh coming here
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this day okay so Mr President has
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directed that it's already set up an
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inquiry but coming here on the ground uh
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it has given me an idea of uh the kind
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of expertise we need to bring onto the
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committee that is conducting the inquiry
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for us to have an holistic View and to
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be able to Law Abiding Citizen more so
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that uh the unfortunate incident uh that
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happened on Sunday occur as a result of
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error on the part of nigan army personel
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so we are ready to take
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responsibility for the medical bills of
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those ones in the hospital and also
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provide uh other support to the entire
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community so that uh they can live their
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life uh more
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