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Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, has said President Bola Tinubu has remained \u201cprofoundly distressed\u201d by the drone attack which resulted in the loss of innocent Muslim lives in Tudun Birni, Kaduna State.<\/p>\n

The minister, who stated this in his address at the Central Council Meeting of the Jama\u2019atu Nasril Islam, JNI, on Monday in Minna, Niger State, appreciated the collective efforts of traditional and religious leaders in helping to calm frayed nerves in the aftermath of the incident.<\/p>\n

\u201cYour Excellency and Your Highnesses, it is with a deep sense of empathy that I convey the heartfelt condolences of the President, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, over the death of scores of Muslim faithful in Tudun Biri, Kaduna state through a mistaken drone attack by the Nigerian military.<\/p>\n

\u201cMay Allah Subhanahu Waata\u2019ala give us all the fortitude to bear this unfortunate tragedy. May Allah grant the departed Aljannah Firdaus, and comfort the living, towards their physical, spiritual, and psychological healing, Ameen.<\/p>\n

\u201cPresident Tinubu has earnestly expressed how the \u201cbombing mishap\u201d was worrying and \u201cpainful\u201d to him and has as a result directed a thorough and full-fledged investigation into the incident and has called for calm, while the authorities look diligently into the mishap,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The minister recalled that the President sent a high-powered Federal Government delegation led by the Vice President, Kashim Shettima, to commiserate, sympathise, and empathise with the people and government of Kaduna State, especially the inhabitants of Tudun Biri who were affected by the unfortunate incident.<\/p>\n

Idris said the President had since approved the commencement of the FULAKO Initiative in which the Federal Government will build houses, clinics, schools, veterinary hospitals, empowerment initiatives and solar energy as part of a non-kinetic response to the problems of banditry and kidnapping in the North.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Fulako Initiative is President Tinubu\u2019s unique humanitarian response to the effects of banditry in our communities and will be implemented in Zamfara, Kebbi, Katsina, Kaduna, Niger and Benue states,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The minister also enjoined the Jama\u2019atu Nasril Islam, Traditional Rulers, Islamic Scholars, and all stakeholders to align with President Tinubu in birthing a new charter for national values and attitudes tagged \u2018Values Charter for Nigeria\u2019.<\/p>\n

\u201cLast week, also, I had the honour to announce a Committee of renowned experts to work on and finalize a Values Charter for Nigeria, in line with President Tinubu\u2019s desire for a true and sustained reorientation of national values and attitudes.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis new Charter, unveiled by the President early next year, will consist of a Nigerian Promise, and Citizen Codes, defining our core values as Nigerians while taking into full account our ethnic, cultural, and linguistic diversities. It will seek to entrench in all Nigerians a balanced understanding of our rights and responsibilities as citizens of the greatest black nation on earth,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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