BY AMOS TAUNA, KADUNA – Following the alarming rate of kidnapping and armed banditry which has been on the increase, the Chief of Air Staff (CAS), Air Marshal Sadique Baba Abubakar, has tasked personnel of the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) on the need to eliminate bandits and insurgents terrorizing parts of the country.
Air Marshal Abubakar, who gave the marching order while commissioning accommodation projects at the Regiment Training Center (RTC) and Military Training Center (MTC), NAF Base in kaduna, urged officers and men to ‘think out of the box’ and evolve strategies of inserting panthers into hostile zones to conduct surgical operations to eliminate bandits and high value targets terrorizing the country.
Represented by the Chief of Policy and Plan, NAF headquarters, Air Vice Marshal AVM Emmanuel Anebi, the CAS tasked the Air Officer Commanding, Ground Training Command, Air Vice Marshal Idi Amin and his regiment officers to develop strategies to anticipate and curb emerging security threats across the country.
He said; “While capacity is been built within the NAF, we must continue to support the effort of the federal government to adequately equip the military which is already yielding the desired results as the Boko-Haram terrorists are being targeted and neutralized.
Earlier, the Air Officer Commanding, Air Vice Marshal Idi Amin, said there has been a giant stride by the leadership of the NAF in the area of training, kitting and welfare of officers and men of the force.
According to him; “The result is evident in the successes recorded by personnel in fight against insurgency and other internal operations across the country by motivated personnel.”
The projects commissioned by the CAS include three blocks of 10 by one bedroom in cadets’ quarters and MTC as well as two blocks of 20 by one students hostel at RTC.
