Minister of Defence General Christopher Musa has defended the military’s airstrike on Jilili market, insisting that those killed were not innocent civilians but individuals who actively supplied food and fuel to insurgents.
Speaking in an interview with Arise TV, he said, “I was an acting brigade commander. I was at Kukawa, Gumbali, and Monguno, where I served, before I came back again in 2019. So I know that area very well. That area had been banned for a very long time because it is the place where insurgents used to meet regularly with people who supply them. They provide them with food, fuel, and all of these things, and normally they operate for a very short time and then disappear. Unfortunately for them, that day we were able to see them and we carried out a strike on all of them.”
He pushed back firmly against critics who have tried to frame the victims as innocent bystanders, stating that no one present at that location that day was there by accident.
He argued that those killed were fully aware of what they were doing and were motivated by the enormous financial rewards of supplying a banned area, noting that a bag of rice could fetch as much as 150,000 naira in that market….See More
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