Tinubu gives military go ahead to fish out killers of military personnel in Delta

President Bola Tinubu has stated that the assassins of Nigerian Army servicemen on a peace mission in Delta State will face justice.

At least 16 Nigerian soldiers were murdered while attempting to quell disturbances between two villages in the South-South state of Delta.

The troops from the 181 Amphibious Battalion, which was deployed in the Bomadi region, were on a peacekeeping assignment in the Okuoma hamlet when they were slain on Thursday, March 14, according to Brigadier General Tukur Gusau in a statement released on Saturday.

 Soldiers of the Joint Task Force, led by General Officer Commanding 6 Division, Nigerian Army, Major General Jamal Abdussalam, reportedly recovered fifteen soldiers’ bodies.

In his reaction to the killings, Tinubu in a statement he personally signed on Sunday gave the Defence Headquarters and Chief of Defence Staff the go ahead to bring to justice anybody found to have been responsible for the killings.

Tinubu said, “The cowardly offenders responsible for this heinous crime will not go unpunished”.

“The Defence Headquarters and Chief of Defence Staff have been granted full authority to bring to justice anybody found to have been responsible for this unconscionable crime against the Nigerian people

“As the Commander-in-Chief, I join all well-meaning Nigerians and the men and women of our armed forces to mourn and express my profound grief over the needless death of our gallant soldiers,” he affirmed. Pre