President Muhammadu Buhari has warned the Army to ensure that an air strike which killed many civilians in Borno state on Tuesday does not happen again.

The Chief of Staff to the president, Abba Kyari, conveyed the president’s message when he led a Federal Government delegation on a condolence visit to the Borno state government.

Among the team are the Chief of Staff to the President, Ministers of Defence and Information, the Chief of Defence Staff, the Chief of Army Staff, and the Chief of Air Staff.

Kyari said the visit was initiated by the President, who has condoled with families of victims of the airstrike.

The president is saddened by the mishap coming at this stage of the post-insurgency war with the terrorists cowardly hiding in the midst of innocent civilians to attract casualties.

According to Kyari, ” the government will do all it can to treat the injured and the Army will do all they can to ensure it doesn’t happen again.”

According to him, the Federal Government is committed to returning IDPs to their homes and ensuring the restoration of peace in Nigeria.

Governor Kashim Shettima commended the Federal Government for its swift response to the Kalabalge disaster maintaining that the “incidence of friendly fire is as old of history of mankind”.

Also, International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has vowed to continue humanitarian aids to northeast Nigeria.

This comes as six of the ICRC workers were among those killed in the accidental airstrike, that left over 50 people dead and many injured in Rann community, Borno State.

The Red Cross said it was coordinating medical emergency efforts with the authorities and other aid agencies.

According to Reuters, the Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) promised to work with the Nigerian Military to ensure such tragedy does not happen again.

Also, Human Rights Watch (HRW) has asked the Nigerian Government to “compensate victims of the Internally Displaced Persons’ (IDPs) camp in the northeast” who were mistakenly bombed by a military jet.

The attack took place on Tuesday near the border with Cameroon, where the military engaged in what it called its ‘final push against Boko Haram’.

A senior researcher at the HRW in Nigeria, Mausi Segun, said that “prompt, adequate and effective compensation” was needed, even though there was no evidence of a willful attack on the camp.

Also, the UN Humanitarian Air Service (UNHAS) has pledged to offer more sustainable support to the Government and people of Nigeria in addressing humanitarian challenges.

To this end, UNHAS says it has airlifted eight Nigeria Red Cross workers injured in the military airstrike that hit Rann Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camp in Borno.

UN Humanitarian Coordinator for Nigeria, Edward Kallon, said a helicopter with four medical personnel and 400kg of emergency medical supplies were dispatched by UNHAS.

Kallon noted that the Nigerian army had also deployed a medical team to the locality for humanitarian services.

He said the military was also working with humanitarian partners to ensure maximum support to the affected people.

United Nations has expressed regrets over Tuesday’s accidental airstrike on an internally displaced persons camp in Rann, Borno, and called for full investigation into it.

It also called for greater measures to protect civilians in the areas of military operations against the destructive Boko Haram insurgents, according to a statement issued by the Office of the UN Secretary-General.

Head of the UN Refugee Agency, Filippo Grandi, who met with Nigerian refugees in Borno in December, called the airstrike “a truly catastrophic event.”

Grandi, therefore, “called for a full accounting so that the causes are known and measures put in place to ensure this does not happen again.”

The Nigerian Government has announced that it would investigate the airstrike.

In its message, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF), stressed the importance of protecting civilians in complex humanitarian emergencies, saying it stands in solidarity with its humanitarian colleagues, and the dangerous conditions they work in.

UNICEF Director for Emergency Programmes, Manuel Fontaine, said the aid workers who lost their lives were working to save others, saying amid outpouring of sympathy, UN emergency responders have continued to aid the bombed Nigerian camp.