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UN commends President Buhari’s reaction on Rann IDP camp bombing

- The United Nations believes that President Buhari's reaction to the accidental bombing of Rann IDP camp by an Air Force jet was appropriate
- UN Humanitarian Coordinator for the Sahel Toby Lanzer dropped the commendations for Buhari on Wednesday, January 25
- Lanzer also believes that the residents of the community and other first responders did well to ensure that the casualty recorded was not higher
The UN believes that President Buhari’s reaction to the Rann IDP camp bombing was just perfect.
President Muhammadu Buhari has been commended by the United Nations for his prompt handling of the accidental bombing of Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camp at Rann, Borno state.
News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the UN Humanitarian Coordinator for the Sahel Toby Lanzer praised President Buhari for showing leadership in handling the situation.
“I think that the Nigerians took leadership of that issue very quickly including at the highest level.
“President Muhammadu Buhari spoke about it publicly within a matter of hours after the incident when the Nigerian Air Force bombed an IDPs camp obviously by mistake,” Lanzer told NAN.
“The airstrike ‘galvanised’ us and I know that that sounds a bit of a paradox.
“But you know within a matter of minutes that we realised what had happened, we rolled off the shock and we had people on the ground who were there to help.”
Lanzer also commended residents of nearby villages for reacting promptly and attending to the victims of the accidental bombing.
“The first responders, and I really want to underline, the first responders in this incident as is so often the case, are the communities themselves.
“It’s the brothers and sisters of the IDPs, the villages nearby who went to help.
“And the United Nations Air Service was able to end medical supplies that very as well as the following day as well as medical teams who went to the site.
“Many of the most severely injured were taken to other places in Nigeria such as Maiduguri and taken care of by different aid organisations.
“It was a tremendous signal of professionalism by the local community and by the local aid workers and international aid workers who are close by,” he said.
NAIJ.com recalls that just recently, Buhari was commended by Reno Omokri, a former aide to ex-president Goodluck Jonathan for his quick response to the bomb attacks on University of Maiduguri by Boko Haram insurgents on Monday, January 16.
In a tweet early on Tuesday, January 17, Omokri applauded President Buhari in a rather unusual post. He commended the president for being swift in his response to the attack that killed a professor, one other person and the two bombers.
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