The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) has dismissed allegations by the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigerian (MACBAN) claiming that scores of its innocent members, on their way from Makurdi, were killed in an airstrike in Nasarawa State.
NAF spokesman, Air Commodore Ayodele Famuyiwa, said those killed in the airstrike were terrorists.
He insisted that no innocent person was killed in the said operation.
His words:
“Let the people who said innocent people were killed provide the evidence and let the press do that analysis and let the truth come out.”
He decried the sustained attempts by some human rights bodies “to put the military in disrepute”.
He expressed concern that the Nigerian press was leveraging on the position of the human rights bodies without necessarily hearing from the Air Force.
The NAF spokesperson further added:
“We have not seen any information of the images of innocent citizens that were killed, even from the media.
“The position of the NAF is that the attack was well-planned, and the bombardment struck the terrorists. If there were a contrary to this, let them provide the evidence.
“The military has information which cannot be declassified now in the scene.
“I will enjoin the press to investigate this to ascertain the veracity of the claims that the bombardment struck innocent citizens.
“If you can observe, after that bombardment, there were no such terrorist activities in that area.”
