{"id":58559,"date":"2024-12-28T08:53:35","date_gmt":"2024-12-28T08:53:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=58559"},"modified":"2024-12-28T08:53:35","modified_gmt":"2024-12-28T08:53:35","slug":"fg-to-investigate-sokoto-airstrike-tragedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/12\/28\/fg-to-investigate-sokoto-airstrike-tragedy\/","title":{"rendered":"FG to Investigate Sokoto Airstrike Tragedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Alexis Uchendu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Federal Government has pledged a thorough investigation into the accidental airstrike that killed at least 10 civilians in Gidan Bisa and Runtuwa villages, Silame Local Government Area, Sokoto State.<\/p>\n<p>Ahmad Aliyu, Press Secretary to the Sokoto State Governor, announced this on Friday following a condolence visit by the Minister of State for Defence, Bello Matawalle, to Governor Ahmed Aliyu.<\/p>\n<p>Matawalle described the incident as tragic, assuring that a detailed probe would uncover the circumstances and ensure justice for the victims.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMr. President is deeply concerned and has directed a comprehensive investigation to determine what went wrong,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The minister explained that erroneous intelligence during military operations may have contributed to the mishap, noting that the targeted area was identified as a Lakurawa bandit stronghold.<\/p>\n<p>The airstrike, conducted Wednesday morning, mistakenly bombed the two communities during a military operation aimed at destroying terrorist logistics bases.<\/p>\n<p>Governor Ahmed Aliyu urged the military to improve intelligence and surveillance to avoid similar tragedies while commending their efforts to maintain peace.<\/p>\n<p>He also thanked President Bola Tinubu for his prompt concern.<\/p>\n<p>The Defence Headquarters clarified the cause of the fatalities. Major General Edward Buba, Director of Defence Media Operations, stated that the deaths resulted from a secondary explosion caused by munitions stored at the terrorist logistics base.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Lakurawa group was neutralized, and their logistics base destroyed, but secondary explosions led to civilian casualties,\u201d Buba said.<\/p>\n<p>The incident has reignited calls for enhanced precision in military operations, especially in civilian-populated areas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Alexis Uchendu The Federal Government has pledged a thorough investigation into the accidental airstrike that killed at least 10 civilians in Gidan Bisa and Runtuwa villages, Silame Local Government Area, Sokoto State. Ahmad Aliyu, Press Secretary to the Sokoto State Governor, announced this on Friday following a condolence visit by the Minister of State [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":58560,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-defence-and-security","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58559"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58561,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58559\/revisions\/58561"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}