The Nigerian Air Force, NAF, said
yesterday that it had succeeded in disrupting the Boko Haram sect’s
communication supply line in the North eastern part of the country, stating
that efforts had been intensified to ensure that the war against insurgents comes
to an end in six weeks.
The Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal
Adesola Amosu, disclosed this at the National Air Defence Corps, NADC, while
flagging off a military operation exercise just as a female suicide bomber
launched an attack at a motor park in Damaturu, Yobe State capital killing 10
persons while 31 others were injured.
Amosu declared that to meet the six
weeks deadline onslaught against terrorists, as earlier declared by the Federal
Government, the military had commenced special trainings for its personnel and
platforms in Lagos for onward deployment to the northeast. He, therefore,
revealed that during the training period, there would be sounds of gun shots as
well as movement of military platform in Lagos, calling on Lagosians not to
panic.
According to him, “we are set to
decimate the Boko Haram terrorists by first gaining air and ground intelligence
to deny them the freedom of action and movement, to destroy their communication
and supply line and deny them the possibilities of regeneration. “We have done
this sufficiently and their command and control is already disrupted and what
we need to do now is an exercise to complete the project.
“It is so easy for people to say what
you could not do in so many years, how come you are going to do in six weeks.
It is an operation and it gets to a point where you can categorically say that
within a period you can complete the operation and this is where we are right
now. “As part of ongoing operations in the northeast, we needed to show up in
Lagos to bring additional capabilities to the fight against insurgency.
We are
incorporating some new systems. Some new ammunition have shown up and we need
to incorporate this into our existing platforms and intensify day and night
operations.
“We need to let the citizens know
that occasionally they will hear gun fires and we will have ammunition being
delivered. They should not panic. We have been in the air for the past few days
and we are notifying the citizens accordingly that the ongoing operations are
to recalibrate our weapon system and fine tune our tactics. “We are satisfied
that the period allocated should be enough to carry out this project. Do not
forget that you need time too for the displaced citizens to be able to go back
to their locations. So we are almost there.”
Culled: VanguardNG
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