Senator Kashim Shettima, the Vice President, has postponed his visit to Kaduna State.
Shettima was scheduled to visit the impacted towns on Wednesday, but he rescheduled his visit for Thursday.
This was revealed in a terse statement issued by the Kaduna State Government three days after a horrific airstrike in the North-Western state killed over 85 people and injured several others.
The reason for the postponing of the No. 2 citizen’s visit was not provided.
Local and international watchdogs have all condemned Sunday’s sad tragedy, urging for probes and a systematic review of procedural actions.
The Army has since taken responsibility for the accident with the Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) General Christopher Musa during his visit apologising to the community over the matter, and promising to halt a repeat of such an incident.
Minister of State for Defence Bello Matawalle was in the company of the CDS.
Receiving the CDS and minister at the Barau Dikko Teaching Hospital in Kaduna, the Deputy Chief Medical Director of the hospital, Dr Shuaibu Musa, said 71 persons were brought to the hospital but one died last night.
“So, we have a total of 71 patients that were brought in. Of these 71, one died last night. So, we had “Most of them, we have stabilized, those that needed blood, we transfused. For those that needed surgery, emergency surgery, we did carry out the emergency surgeries and many of them are now stable and we are about to start discharging some of them that are even stable.
“Some of them with minor degrees of injuries may be discharged to the community.”