SAN FRANCISCO, January 19, (THEWILL) – An aid group, the Doctors Without Borders, MSF, on Friday disclosed that an air strike by the Nigerian Air Force, NAF, earlier this week on a camp for persons displaced by the Boko Haram insurgency killed at least 90 people.
It stated that most of the victims of the shots by NAF fighter jet on an IDPs’ camp at Rann, Kale-Balge Local Government Area of Borno State, on Tuesday were women and children.
This was as the NAF said it has constituted a board of senior officers to investigate Tuesday’s
accidental air strike of the IDPs camp.
The NAF Director of Public Relations & Information, Group Captain Ayodele Famuyiwa, in a statement, explained that constituting the board was necessary to forestall future occurrence.
According to him: “This is with a view to forestall future occurrence. In addition to a list of 20 witnesses given to it, the Board is free to invite other persons to give evidence on oath. The Board is to submit its report not later than February 2.
“The six-man Board is headed by the Chief of Standards and Evaluation, Headquarters Nigerian Air Force, Air Vice Marshal Salihu Bala-Ribah. Other members are Air Vice Marshal Charles Oghomwen, Air Commodore Ayoola Jolasinmi, Group Captain Essien Efanga, Wing Commander Solomon Irmiya and Wing Commander Mohammed Muazu.”
