The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) claims that continuous air attacks on terrorist strongholds across the theatres have killed dozens of terrorists working for the Air Components of Operations Hadin Kai and Hadarin Daji.
On Sunday in Abuja, NAF Director of Public Relations and Information Air Commodore Edward Gabkwet released a statement confirming this.
According to Gabkwet, air interdiction flights were conducted early on Saturday morning at Bukar Meram, a suspected terrorist safe haven in the Borno region close to Lake Chad.
He explained that the strikes were called for after intelligence indicated that terrorists had recently relocated from the Suwa area to the Bukar Meram region in preparation for a new wave of attacks against ground soldiers and civilians.
He claims that air attacks were permitted to annihilate the militants at the Bukar Meram site.
Several terrorists were neutralised, while over 40 motorcycles and six weapons trucks were destroyed, according to information gathered after the strikes.
A spokesman for the Nigerian Air Force said that on October 11, the Air Component of Operation Haradin Daji conducted similar air strikes against terrorists in the Sangeko axis of the Maru Local Government Area in the state of Zamfara.
He claimed that a group of terrorists travelling on roughly seventy motorcycles on the road track from Kabaro to Sangeko were engaged, with some being neutralised, their motorcycles destroyed, and other terrorists receiving injuries.
Air Marshal Hasan Abubakar, Chief of the Air Staff, has praised the Air Components, according to Gabkwet.
He said that Abubakar had praised his efforts and support for the ground forces. Don’t get complacent; we have to keep giving our people the faith they need to succeed.
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