Vice President Kashim Shettima has hinted at plans by the Federal Government to rebuild Tudun Biri village in Igabi Local Government Area of Kaduna State which was hit by a misfire from drones belonging to the Nigerian military.
According to Shettima, President Bola Tinubu has directed that the Pullako Initiative should be kick-started in Kaduna State, with a complete package, including houses, clinics, schools, veterinary clinics, empowerment initiatives, solar energy, among others, in Tudun Biri community as a way of compensation for the destruction caused by the drone misfire.
The Vice President said this on Thursday after visiting the victims of the drone misfire accident at the Barau Dikko Teaching Hospital in Kaduna State, where some of the injured, most of whom are women and children, are receiving treatment.
Shettima also directed the Management of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) to mobilise and provide adequate supports to the victims of the tragedy in Tudun Biri village.
Announcing President Tinubu’s decision to rebuild the community, VP Shettima who spoke at a meeting with leaders and other stakeholders of the community said the Pullako Initiative is the President’s unique response as a non-kinetic approach to the challenges in the North West region of Nigeria.
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The Vice President also noted that President Tinubu is worried about the tragic incident, just as he pointed out that away from the number of casualties, it is gruesome to lose even one life.
Senator Shettima thanked religious leaders and elders of the community for not yielding to what he described as a plot to politicise the incident in an attempt to inflame passions.
Chief Medical Director of the hospital, Shuaibu Musa, told Vice President Shettima who was at the health facility to commiserate with victims of the drone misfire, that the facility received 71 victims with different degrees of injuries.
He said some of the casualties have been referred to 44 Nigerian Army Reference Hospital, Kaduna.
The Vice President, in the company of Speaker of the House of Representatives, Tajudeen Abbas; the State Governor, Uba Sani; APC National Chairman, Abdullahi Ganduje; Minister of Defence, Ibrahim Badaru and other senior government officials, moved from bed to bed consoling victims of the attack, while receiving briefings on the health condition of each of the patients on their hospital bed.
Editor: Ken Eseni
