The Commandant of the Armed Forces Command and Staff College (AFCS), Jaji, in Kaduna state, Air Vice Marshal Eko Effiom Osim has said that the Jaji Military Cantonment lost a total of 21 persons, including officers, men and children to bomb attack.
The Commandant also disclosed that about 48 other victims of the attack were still receiving treatment at the expense of the college after eight months after.
Osim disclosed this while briefing members of the House of Representatives Committee on Defence, who were on an oversight visit to the college yesterday He said due to the sad incident of the bomb blast, that the military cantonment saw the need to relocate the communities that have sandwiched the military cantonment.
"The communities have grown so big that they have become like a cancer to the military cantonment, making it possible for all kinds of people to infiltrate the military community"
The Commandant also told the committee that though efforts were on to relocate the communities by the Kaduna State government, AFCS has taken measures to engage leaders of the communities and seek their understanding in respect of security of the military base.
According to him, some of the community leaders are now on the payroll of the college and have been assisting greatly to Earlier in his remarks, the Chairman, House Committee on Defence, Hon. Bashir Adamu Kazaure, said they were at the college to monitor the implementation of the college's budget for 2012 and the first quarter of the 2013 budget year.
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That is just a very sad news. All this death news all around the world must just stop before things get out of hand.