The Nigerian Air Force, NAF, in its quest to flush out insurgency in the country within six weeks, said it has successfully intercepted Boko Haram’s communication supply line in the North eastern part of the country.
Air Marshal Adesola Amosu, the Chief of Air Staff, made this disclosure yesterday at the National Air Defence Corps, NADC,while flagging off the military campaign against the insurgents.
The Chief of Air Staff said in order to meet up with the six weeks ultimatum the Federal Government gave to flush out insurgency in the country, the Military has started a special training in Lagos for its officers who on completion will be redeploy to the northeastern part of the country. He further urged Lagosians not to panic as there will be sounds of gunshots as well as movement of military during this period.
Amosu said, “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.
He added that, “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.”
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