Air Force to continue bombarding Sambisa forest – Air Marshal Abubakar

The Chief of Air Staff, CAS, Air Marshal Saddiq Abubakar, yesterday declared that the daily aerial bombardment of the Sambisa forest will continue until the Boko Haram insurgents are completely defeated.

Saddiq, who made this known in Yola while inspecting two newly acquired aircraft at the Air Wing of the 75 Strike Force, declared that the new aircraft would boost the morale of troops in the counter insurgency campaign.

While seeking the support of people of the North East on Intelligence gathering, he stressed that no country can defeat terrorism without the active participation of the civil populace.

“Whatever intelligence report the people have will go a long way in assisting the military to Identify where the criminals are hiding because at times the terrain is too difficult for our military to easily penetrate. It is also difficult for an aircraft to identify a 13 year old girl carrying explosives except the people around her,” he stated.