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Insurgency: NAF orders commanders to be ruthless to terrorists, bandits

By Linus Aleke
The Nigerian Air Force (NAF), has ordered operational commanders in the various theatres of operation across the country to be ruthless and “show no mercy,” to terrorists, bandits and other criminal elements in Nigeria.

The Director of Public Relations and Information, Nigerian Air Force, Air Commodore Edward Gabkwet in a statement on Wednesday said that the Service also charged the commanders to ensure that they employ maximum firepower against terrorists posing security threats to the country.

The Chief of the Air Staff (CAS), Air Marshal Oladayo Amao gave this order on Tuesday, when he met with frontline Air Officers Commanding (AOC), and Air Component Commanders (ACCs), at the NAF Base in Kaduna.

Urging the commanders to deny terrorists freedom of movement and ease to cause mayhem against innocent Nigerians, Air Marshal Amao, also charged them to be very mean to any terrorist and their accomplices.

The Air Chief also applauded them for their efforts as well as the improved synergy with sister Services and other security agencies.

He underscored the need for effective allocation and utilization of all NAF platforms deployed for operations in the Northwest and Northcentral for enhanced operational effectiveness.

Doing so, he said, will deny the terrorists freedom of movement while boosting the confidence of the populace and ensuring a peaceful country.

Air Marshal Amao noted that though the security environment remains fluid and uncertain with terrorists moving between the northeast, northwest and north central, the need to continually modify NAF’s air power strategies to stay ahead of the asymmetric and unconventional nature of terrorists’ activities is of paramount importance.

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“We have a responsibility to secure our nation and give our citizens a sense of hope, trust and belonging. Therefore, we must ensure that we stay ahead of the enemy and envisage his next line of action,” he said.

Air Marshal Amao then assured them that training of more combat pilots, imagery analysts and other specialties in the NAF would continue to be of utmost priority so as to address the manpower challenges within the operation areas.

He said efforts were at advanced stage to procure more combat platforms for the NAF to meet the ever-increasing demands of air assets in various theatres of operations across the nation.

“Other issues addressed during the interface included the need to ensure speedy procurement circle of aircraft spares to minimise aircraft down-time amongst other issues,” the statement concluded.

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