Tears As Military Buries 20 Killed In Niger Ambush, Air Crash

Again, a NAF MI-171 Helicopter crashed on 14 August 2023 at about 1pm near Chukuba village in Niger State, while on casualty evaluation mission.

“Today is one of the most difficult days in every commander’s mind because when you have to bury your own, you feel highly pained but I want to assure the families that their death is not in vain. “Today we bid farewell to remarkable men who dedicated their lives to the noble cause of self-guarding our nation,” Musa added.

He charged every military personnel to honour the fallen heroes by redoubling their efforts to benefit a safe and prosperous Nigeria. The director, Defence Media Operations, Major General Edward Buba, in a statement said 231 terrorists and families surrendered to troops within the period. He added that 231 terrorists and their families comprising 25 adult males, 63 adult females and 143 children surrendered troops.He gave a breakdown of recovered ammunitions as follows: 14 AK47 rifle, one AK49 rifle, two AK47 rifles loaded with 7.62mm special ammo, one PKT gun, one LMG, two pump action guns, two locally fabricated pistols, three locally fabricated rifle, two dane guns, one pistol, and two locally made long barrel guns.

He said the recovered stolen crude has a street value of about N414,396.250 which was denied to the oil thieves.Meanwhile, a non-governmental organisations , Amnesty International, Allamin Foundation For Peace and Development ,and family members have declared that about 23,000 persons have been missing within the 13 years of Boko Haram insurgency in Borno and other parts of Northeast, with only 1,886 of them so far discovered.

Sanusi said Amnesty International Nigeria held the press conference to urge Nigerian authorities to investigate all cases of missing persons and enforced disappearances arising from the insurgency in the northeast, to intensify its campaign against the government’s deafening silence on the fate of victims of enforced disappearances in the region.

“Ensure that enforced disappearances are thoroughly and effectively investigated, that suspects are prosecuted in accordance with international standards of due process, and that those found guilty receive punishments that are proportionate to the seriousness of the offense.

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