Identities of the victims of the Nigerian Air Force plane which crashed Saturday morning into residential quarters at Ribadu Cantonment in Kaduna have come to the fore.
The victims are; Squadron Leader Adekunle Suara (pilot), wife of Wing Commander N. Hassan, wife of Wing Commander I. B. Musa, Warrant Officer Etim and Air Craft Woman Naomi Adekunle all perished in the Abuja bound aircraft.
Squadron Leader Suara was the Pilot of the ill-fated crash. He is survived by a young wife.
This was as the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Defence (MOD), Alhaji Isma’ila in company of the Chief of Defence Staff, Air Officer Commanding (AOC)Training Command, General Officer Commanding (GOC) 1 Division, Commandants of Air force Institute of Technology (AFIT) and Nigerian Defence Academy and other top military officers paid families of the deceased condolence visit at the NAF base, Kaduna yesterday.
Meanwhile, owner of the house where the ill-fated plane crashed, Lieutenant Colonel Grema narrated how he escaped death on that faithful day.
He told the Permanent Secretary and his entourage that “I came out of my house few minutes before the plane fell to put on my bore hole, I had not quite shut the door to my house when I heard the plane fall.”
As at the time of the Permanent Secretary’s visit, condolence registers have been opened in the victim’s houses, while some family members were still in shock. Wife of the pilot, a young woman who lost a husband she had only been married to for over a year thanked the Permanent Secretary and his entourage for the visit.
Wing Commander Musa and Hassan said the visit by the top brass team had given them encouragement and courage to raise the children their wives left, they however pleaded their unrelenting effort to move the NAF and the Nigeria military forward.
Speaking however with newsmen after inspecting the scene of the crash, the Permanent Secretary noted that they were here to commensurate with the families who lost their loved once and their property in the unfortunate crash that occurred on Saturday.
“It is a very sad even not only to the Nigerian Air Force, but to all Nigerians we have lost very able officers and their families and we want to on behalf of the Federal Government extend our condolences to all of them and pray for the repose of their souls.
“On efforts the FG is making to foster the reoccurrence of such crash, he said “with the passion and zeal the president came in with, you will appreciate that he is doing everything possible to address some of these challenges of security in the country. The Nigerian Army, Airforce and Navy are all one and he is doing all his best to reposition them to meet global standards.”
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