The Chief of Air Staff, (CAS), Air Marshal Saddique Baba Abubakar, on Wednesday, tasked personnel of the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) on the need eliminate bandits and insurgents terrorizing the country.
He gave the matching order in his remarks during the commissioning of accommodation projects at the Regiment Training Center (RTC) and Military Training Center, (MTC) NAF base in Kaduna on Wednesday.
Dailypost listed the projects being commissioned by the CAS to include three blocks of 10 by one Bedroom in cadets quarters and MTC, two blocks of 20 by one student’s hostel at RTC amongst others.
The CAS who represented by Air Vice Marshal, AVM Emmanuel Anebi, the Chief Policy and Plan, NAF headquarters, tasked the Air Officer Commanding, Ground Training Command, Air Vice Marshal Idi Amin, and his regiment officers to ‘think out of the box’ and immediately evolve strategies of inserting panthers into hostile zones to conduct surgical operations to eliminate bandits and high value targets terrorizing the country.
“While capacity is been built within the NAF, we must continue to develop strategies to anticipate and curb emerging security threats across the country.”
CAS explained that the efforts of the Federal Government to adequately equip the military were already yielding the desired results as the Boko Haram terrorists are being targeted and neutralized.`
