Kaduna Bomb: Tinubu in trouble as victims slam FG N33bn lawsuit, details emerge

Residents of Tudun Biri in the Igabi Local Government Area of Kaduna State have taken legal action against the President Bola Ahmed Tinubu-led Federal Government.

As reported by Daily Trust, they are seeking compensation amounting to N33 billion in response to the recent airstrikes by the army that resulted in the deaths of over 100 individuals in the village during a Maulud celebration on the night of the penultimate Sunday.

Following the incident, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu ordered an investigation into the massacre, emphasising the necessity to prevent any recurrence.

The legal complaint was lodged on December 8 at the Federal High Court in Kaduna by Alhaji Dalhatu Salihu, representing Tudun Biri residents, through their legal representative, Mukhtar Usman Esq.

The villagers are also requesting a public apology to be published in at least three national newspapers, citing the lawsuit as a means to uphold the survivors' fundamental rights to life.

Among the reliefs sought are: “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.”

According to the report, no date has been fixed for the hearing.