Attahiru: Kaduna plane crash must be investigated – Nigeria Youth Council

The Nationwide Youth Council of Nigeria (NYCN) has generally known as for the probe of the Kaduna air crash that claimed the lives of Navy Chief, Lt. Gen. Ibrahim Attahiru and totally different officers.

Solomon Adodo, the President, moreover demanded the grounding of all navy airplane throughout the nation to ascertain their airworthiness.

Adodo, in condolence letters to the Chief of Defence Staff and Chief of Air Staff, said the crashes have been affecting the battle on terror.

The NYCN chief well-known that the spate of navy plane crashes throughout the nation was unsettling.

The group questioned why the officers died whereas on an official undertaking to attend the passing out parade on the Nigerian Army Depot in Zaria.

The assertion said over 20 navy officers have misplaced their lives in three crashes throughout the closing three months. “That’s fully unacceptable to the youth”, Adodo said.

On February 21, a Minna-bound navy jet crashed, killing all 7 people on board. On April 2, one different Alpha jet crashed in Borno.

“No navy wherever on the earth ought to fake that it is okay to file plane crashes on bi-monthly bases, and no country or people can accept that.

“We, subsequently, demand the outcomes of earlier investigations revealed and a navy Committee of Enquiry empanelled to investigate the incessant crashes.

“The country’s first female combat pilot Tolulope Arotile, instrumental to the decimation of terrorist cells, suffered a similar future in an Air Base that was presumably presupposed to be a safe place,” Adodo said.

The NYCN warned that the morale of troopers is being dampened by the happenings and urged the authorities to take pragmatic steps to forestall further occurrences.