mistakenly blow up an Internally
Displaced persons (IDP) camp, non of the
families of the 126 people who died has
been compensated.
On January 17, 2017, a Nigerian
airforce plane mistakenly bombed an
Internally Displaced People's camp.
NAIJ.com gathered that apart from the
50 people initially reported dead, about
76 more people died on the same day,
bringing the total record to 126.
According to the cable, 120 civilians
were also injured during the mistaken
attack.
Babagana Malarima, chairman of Kala
Balge local government as at the time of
the bombing, initially said 236 people
had died in the attack, but later revised
the figures, stating that the figures
available to him were a lump sum of
injured and killed persons.
A total of 126 people were believed to have lost
their lives in the attack.
Apart from the 126 who died on the firstday, some others have died in the days
following the attack, but none, not a
single household has been compensated
for the military, whose mistake brought
about the calamity.
The Presidential Committee on North
East Initiative on Saturday, March 4,
presented N10,000 cash support each to
58 victims of the accidental air strike at
Rann IDP camp in Borno state, but
nothing was done for the families of the
dead.
NAIJ.com recalls that on January 17, a
military jet mistakenly dropped a bomb
inside the Rann IDP camp in Borno state
leading to the death of about people
with 120 injured.
The Rann IDP camp is located in Kala-
balge local government area and it
caters for thousands of persons
displaced by Boko Haram.
Meanwhile, the theatre commander of
Operation Lafiya Dole, Major-General
Lucky Irabor has said the cause of the
accidental bombing of an IDP camp in
Rann, Borno state was the result of
incorrect coordinates.
Irabor told a visiting United Nations
Security Council delegation on Sunday,
March 5 that the accidental bombing
which killed 236 civilians was a “grave
mistake” that was the result of faulty
information.
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