The Jama’atu Nasril Islam (JNI) has urged Nigeria’s political elites to learn from the recent plane crash that killed some military heads, asking President Muhammadu Buhari’s regime to investigate repeated air mishaps to prevent further loss of lives in the country.

It urged the regime to constitute an investigative panel of experts to unearth the recurring mystery.

The Secretary-General of JNI, Khalid Aliyu, made the appeal in a statement issued on Tuesday in Kaduna.

Mr Aliyu explained that, if anything, their death was a pointer to the uncertainty of life and a lesson to political elites.

He stated, “Indeed, this sad event is a lesson from the dead to the living, most especially the Nigerian ruling class as they hold sway in their respective offices, and the citizens too should learn humility and uprightness.”

Mr Aliyu said constituting the panel to unearth the air mishaps involving senior servicemen “is so averred because the nation is seriously losing human capital.”

“This human capital isn’t just easy to come by,” he added, “as it is consciously and determinedly acquired.”

The JNI chieftain further noted, “For posterity, we implore the government to release other reports of happenings in which innocent lives were lost and implement same so as to serve as a deterrent, as well as take necessary steps to forestall recurrence.

“JNI, under the leadership of its President-General, Alhaji Muhammad Abubakar III, received with shock the death news of the Nigerian Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Ibrahim Attahiru, and 10 others, as a result of airplane crash.”

The statement added, “As Muslims, we submit to Allah’s ordained trials, in faith, as they occur. Nevertheless, from the several accounts of the deceased’s associates, colleagues, families, and friends, virtually all of them were good men of virtues.

“In fact, the more you hear of any of them, the more you conclude that ab initio what you knew personally of them was nothing compared to what is being said of them. May the testimonies count in the record of their good deeds before Allah. May He the exceedingly merciful overlook their shortcomings.”

(NAN)