Kaduna Bombing: Villagers Drags FG to Court, Demand N33bn Compensation

The residents of Tudun Biri, located in Kaduna State‘s Igabi Local Government Area, have filed a lawsuit against the federal government, requesting N33 billion in compensation for the murder of at least 100 of their relatives.

According to Gistlover, the Nigerian Army took credit for dropping a bomb on Tudun Biri on penultimate Sunday, killing at least 100 civilians. This information was provided by the Kaduna State Government.

President Bola Tinubu vowed to punish anyone found responsible for the mistaken drone bombardment of the community and ordered a probe into the events leading up to the regrettable tragedy.

However, a villager known only as Dalhatu Salihu filed a lawsuit at the Federal High Court, Kaduna, on December 8, 2023, requesting the aforementioned amount as compensation on behalf of his kinsmen through their attorney, Mukhtar Usman.

Furthermore, they are requesting that an apology be printed in a minimum of three national publications, citing the lawsuit as a means of upholding the survivors’ fundamental rights.

Among the reliefs sought by the villagers is “a declaration that the act of striking dead, by way of aerial bombardment of the deceased victims herein while celebrating the Islamic Maulud at their village of Tudun Biri in Igabi Local Government Area on the 3rd day of December 2023 by the personnel under the command and supervision of the 3rd respondent (the Chief of Army Staff) amounts to a violation of the deceased victims’ fundamental rights to life as enshrined in Section 33 of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 and Article 10(1) of the African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights (Ratification Enforcement) Act (Cap 10) LFN 2010 and hence ultra vires the respondents, illegal, unlawful and unconstitutional.”

No date has been fixed for the hearing.