Former
Nigerian Minister of Education, Mrs Ezekwesili has bitterly reacted to
the news of the bombing of a civilian camp in Rann, Kala Balge LGA,
Borno by the Nigerian army.
Oby Ezekwesili
The Bring Back Our Girls (BBOG) advocacy group co-convener, Mrs Oby
Ezekwesili, who just returned from a visit to the Sambisa forest was
saddened by the news of the Nigerian army bombing an Internally Displaced Peoples camp by mistake leading to several deaths and injuries.
The vocal and powerful woman attributed the avoidable and costly
mishap to an act of "intelligence failure" on the part of the Nigerian
army.
There are conflicting reports about the casualty rate, some media
outfits have reported 52 died while over 100 innocent civilians were
injured.
President Muhammadu Buhari has since regretted the accident and commiserated with the families of the victims.
Ezekwesili made her displeasure known via her Twitter handle:
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