Military plane mishap: Questions Tinubu’s probe must answer

By Beifoh Osewele
The condolences are touching and the tributes glowing. Flags fly at half-mast, mourning and wailing spread through barracks and military formations, and another investigation is ordered. Nigeria has travelled this road before, far too often. Yet the losses continue.
After the October 5 crash of the Nigerian Air Force’s ATR-42, NAF 931, at Igbokoda, Ondo State, President Bola Tinubu ordered a probe. Will this one be different? At least 63 deaths in eight fatal incidents over a decade underpin observers’ demands for answers on safety, funding, rescue readiness and earlier investigations.
The NAF 931 surveillance aircraft was travelling from Benin City to Lagos on a...