Foreign Affairs Minister gives update on Nigerian soldiers detained in Burkina Faso after forced aircraft landing

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According to Yusuf Tuggar, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Nigerian soldiers who were aboard an aircraft that forced a landing in Burkina Faso are still stuck there.

Tuggar revealed this information on Thursday at the ECOWAS Commission in Abuja during a press conference with his Beninese colleague, Olushegun Bakari.

Recall that an aircraft carrying eleven Nigerian soldiers was accused of violating Burkinabe airspace on Monday by the Confederation of Sahel States (AES).

AES is a breakaway West African regional union composed of Burkina Faso, Mali, and the Niger Republic, according to ZINGTIE.

Assimi Goita, the chairman of the Mali junta, called the landing “an unfriendly act carried out in defiance of international law.”

According to the AES, any aircraft that violates its airspace may be neutralized by its member states.

This occurred concurrently with Nigerian military conducting airstrikes in Benin to prevent a coup.

The C-130 aircraft was on a ferry mission to Portugal, according to the Nigerian Air Force (NAF), which commented on the issue.

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