By Musa Umar Bologi Abuja
Chief of the Air Staff (CAS), Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar, said yesterday that global experience has shown that air power “is critical to the defeat of asymmetric warfare, such as the Boko Haram insurgency in Nigeria.” Director, Public Relations and Information, Nigerian Air Force, Air Commodore, Olatokunbo Adesanya, said in a statement that the CAS said this when he visited the frontline troops at the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) Base in Yola.
He said: “All hands must therefore be on deck to ensure the eff ective projection of air power to complete the defeat of the Boko Haram challenge. “Th e CAS urged all the personnel to ensure that all the NAF aircraft committed to Operation LAFIYA DOLE remained serviceable and operational for the NAF to eff ectively project air power.
“He also assured the personnel that the Service Chiefs had started exploring how to improve the synergy among the three services towards putting a fi nal end to the Boko Haram menace.” Th e NAF spokesperson said the CAS expressed appreciation to the NAF personnel for their continuous selfl ess eff orts towards ensuring that Nigerians were able to go about their normal businesses without fear. “He also commended their eff orts in maintaining aircraft and associated equipment, which had enabled the NAF to fl y over 9, 000 hours in the previous two years alone, in prosecution of the counterinsurgency operations
