All the 109 senators of the Federal Republic of Nigeria have donated their December salaries to the victims of the bombing mishap that took place in Kaduna last Sunday.
According to Daily Trust, the Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Barau I. Jibrin, announced this on Sunday at the Kaduna State Government House when he led a high-power delegation of Senate members to the state.
The Senators were received at the Government House by Governor Uba Sani.
Background
A drone strike by Nigeria’s military killed scores of civilians celebrating a religious festival, the deadliest single incident on a growing list of such mistakes.
Nigeria’s National Emergency Management Agency put the death toll at 85 civilians in the village in Tudun Biri in Kaduna state
More than 300 people were killed in 14 separate reported strikes carried out by the Nigerian air force between January 2o17 and January 2023, according to a count by SBM Intelligence, a Lagos-based intelligence company. The drone strike on Sunday was carried out by an aviation wing of the army, rather than the air force, said Confidence MacHarry, lead security analyst at SBM.
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