information that led to the accidental bombing of
IDP camp
- A source said the country has always been
providing intelligence
- An official but classified investigation has started
There are emerging reports that a foreign
country provided false intelligence to Nigeria on
the location of Boko Haram terrorists leading to
the accidental bombing of an IDP camp.
The tragic incident happened on Tuesday,
January 17 at the Rann IDP camp is located in
Kala-balge local government area and it caters
for thousands of persons displaced by Boko
Haram.
About 72 persons were reported dead including
aid workers from the Red Cross while more
than a hundred were confirmed injured.
intelligence community who spoke on the
condition of anonymity said the accidental
bombing was due to information provided by a
foreign country that has been helping in the
fight against terrorism.
The source also said there was no synergy of
information between the military, emergeny
management authority and thr Borno state
government.
The source said: “What happened was that a foreign
nation, which had been assisting in the counter-
insurgency, provided an intelligence alert on the
regrouping of some insurgents in Rann.
“The foreign country based its alert on what its
surveillance radar picked. The alert indicated that the
insurgents must be smoked out as early as possible. It
was on this basis that the Air Force deployed its jet.
“The error occurred because the IDPs camp was not
among the list of camps made available to the Air Force.
There is a strong suspicion that the camp was recently
set up by emergency bodies and Borno State without
updating the list given to the military.”
IDPcamp
“Yet, we cannot blame the foreign country because it
had always given credible intelligence to the military,
especially on Operation Lafiya Dole.”
Another source revealed that a classified
investigation has started and involved the
military and security operatives.
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He said: “It is going to be a comprehensive audit of the
information available to the Tactical Air Command, the
directives given to the pilot and his crew, how the flight
took off, why the plane could not distinguish a
settlement from insurgents’ clusters and why the
bombing was done.
“It is going to be a classified investigation because a lot
of international and national forces/ intelligence
agencies are collaborating in the Northeast.”
“I think we will all come out stronger after this
investigation. This is an Air Force that has recorded
6,000 hours of counter-insurgency missions without
hurting any civilian. Everyone is actually sad here.”
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