The Senate has warned the military to apply extra caution in the way it goes about its business in order to prevent fatal errors from occurring again.
The advice came on Wednesday following a point of order, raised by the Senate Leader, Ahmed Lawan at plenary.
Lawan noted that dozens of people were killed on Tuesday when an air force jet accidentally bombarded the Rann IDPs camp, Kala Balge in Borno.
The Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekeremadu who presided over the plenary also warned the military expressing hope that such accidents would never happened happen again.
“We only hope and pray that this will not happen again. We urge the military, especially the air force; to as much as possible ensure that this does not happen again,” Ekweremadu said.
“We are also conscious of the effort of our gallant soldiers, especially that which they have been making in the North-East. We believe this was completely unintended.”
The deputy senate President who sympathised with the families of the deceased also described it as very unfortunate.
“We send our big condolences to the families who lost their dear loved ones in that very unfortunate incident,” he said.
’No doubt, it was an obvious mistake.”
The Senators observed a minute silent in honour of the deceased.
He, however, urged the military not to allow the sad incident dampen their morale from continuing in the good work they were doing.
