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A Nigerian-American professor, Farooq Kperogi, has said that when in January 2017, the Nigerian Air Force “mistakenly” dropped two bombs on Rann, Borno State, which killed 236 civilians, there was “pin-drop silence from the Muslim North.” Kperogi, an activist and author, in his article on Saturday stated that some northern scholars had suddenly found their voice to reel out ethnic-religious sentiments in the wake of the latest accidental bombing by the Nigerian military in Tudun Biri, Kaduna State.
Six years ago (2017) under Buhari, Nigerian Air Force fighter jet “mistakenly” bombed a refugee camp in Kala-balge Local Government Area of Borno State. More than hundred refugees were killed and a lot more wounded including aid workers. On April 26, 2021, instead of bombing Boko Haram extremists, an Air Force fighter jet bombed men of the Nigerian army which resulted to killing over 20 officers, as reported, on their way to Mainok in Borno State.