Nigeria’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Yusuf Tuggar, has confirmed that the Nigerian soldiers involved in the forced aircraft landing in Burkina Faso are still in the country.
Tuggar spoke on Thursday during a press briefing in Abuja with the Foreign Affairs Minister of Benin Republic, Olushegun Bakari, at the ECOWAS Commission.
Earlier this week, the Confederation of Sahel States (AES), made up of Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger, accused an aircraft with 11 Nigerian soldiers onboard of entering Burkinabe airspace without permission. The leader of the Mali military government, Assimi Goita, also described the aircraft landing as an unfriendly act that went against international law.
AES stated that it had given its member countries the authority to neutralize any aircraft that enters their airspace illegally.
This happened around the same time Nigerian forces carried out airstrikes in Benin Republic to help stop a coup attempt.
The Nigerian Air Force later explained that the C-130 aircraft was only on a ferry trip to Portugal when the incident happened.
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