Air Force under probe over bombing of Ndume’s convoy

The Senate is set to open an investigation into the last Saturday’s bombing of convoy of Senator Mohammed Ali Ndume allegedly by a Nigerian air force fighter jet in Borno State.

Speaking to journalists yesterday in Abuja, Ndume who represents Borno south in the upper legislative chamber insisted that contrary to denials by authorities of the Nigerian air force, one of their fighter jets did dropped four bombs in Pulka village where he was on his way to Gwoza to perform official functions on Saturday.

Ndume said he has briefed Senate President David Mark and principal officers and the red chamber is expected to institute an investigation into the circumstances that led to the bombings.

“The senate president called me on Sunday, he was worried and I told him what really happened. He commiserated with me and said senate will do something when we resumed plenary. I had expected the air force to accept that they made a mistake. If Senator Ndume was lucky a policeman who lost his life was not lucky,” he said.

He described the statement credited to the Air Force spokesman as denying occurrence of the incident as unfortunate because “four bombs were dropped by the fighter jet and we picked shells. I have one in my house in Maiduguri I only didn’t bring it because I came by air.”

He the people of Pulka collected the remaining three shells and “pleaded with me that they want to keep it for records purposes. So where did I get the shells? I showed it to journalists in Maiduguri so how can somebody say nothing happened?