NHRC questions Air Force over rising civilian deaths in airstrikes

The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has called connected the Nigerian Air Force to urgently explicate the continuous reported airstrikes that person allegedly led to civilian deaths successful antithetic parts of the country, informing that the signifier of the incidents raises superior quality rights and accountability concerns.

The Executive Secretary of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), Tony Ojukwu, said the committee is progressively disquieted astir what it described arsenic repeated nonaccomplishment of civilian lives during subject aerial operations conducted successful the people of counter-insurgency and anti-banditry campaigns.

He noted that portion the Federal Government has a work to combat insecurity crossed the country, specified operations indispensable beryllium carried retired wrong the limits of the instrumentality and successful enactment with planetary humanitarian standards that support civilians.

According to him, reports of deaths and injuries involving women, children and different susceptible persons during airstrikes constituent to imaginable breaches of the close to beingness and quality dignity, which helium said cannot beryllium ignored.

Ojukwu questioned wherefore akin incidents proceed to hap contempt earlier nationalist interest and assurances that operational procedures would beryllium reviewed to debar civilian harm.

He cited respective reported cases recorded betwixt April and...