THE air strike on a village in Kaduna State was not intentional, the Army has said.
The Chief of Defence Staff, General Christopher Musa, who made this comment also described the air strike on Tudun Biri village in Igabi Local Government Area of the State as unfortunate.
General Musa added that was not a deliberate action targeted against the people.
‘’It was a mistake and it’s because those in charge had a report that something was going to happen and they got carried away and then they reacted, it wasn’t on purpose,’’ the Chief of Defence Staff said in his remarks at the graduation ceremony of participants at the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies, Kuru in Plateau State.
“My fear is when we discourage our troops; next time even when the real ones come, they will not want to act because they will say if we do and it’s a mistake, we won’t do anything. So I think we should try and look at this thing dispassionately when incidents occur.
“Nobody in his right minds will wake up and look at people and just burn them without reason, we are all Nigerians, we are meant to protect Nigerians and that is what we are doing. In the course of it we might make mistakes because we are humans but it will never be deliberate.
“So I want to appeal to all of us to firstly pray for Nigeria, pray for our leaders, stand strong, believe in this country, it’s a great and wonderful country we have and we must not let it down,” CDS Musa said.
