Air Force chief issues warning to B’Haram

Members of the Boko Haram terrorist sect that have wrecked havoc in some parts of north east Nigeria have been given a leeway to escape death, as the Chief of Air Staff, Air Vice Marshal Sadique Abubakar, on Saturday warned the insurgents to surrender or face the full force of the nation’s military capability.

According to him, every necessary thing to unleash the might of the military on the terrorists is being put in place and it would be wise of them to surrender now.
Abubakar issued the warning while addressing newsmen at the end of the 2015 Annual 10-kilometer Walk/Jog exercise organised by the Admin Branch of the Nigerian Air Force, in Abuja.

He said, “My message to the insurgents is simple; it is either they give up their insurgency or they are going to face the force.

“They can come up so that we can bring this operation to an end, if not, the consequences will be terribly unbearable.”

He said that the Nigerian Air Force was working closely with all the forces to achieve the deadline to end insurgency in the North-East.

“The deadline has been set and we are going to achieve that deadline.

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“It is not only an Air Force war; it is a war that is jointly fought by all the forces.

“Our responsibility is to make it easy for the surface forces to move around to conduct their operation without any hindrance and that is exactly what we have been doing.

“It is a very coordinated operation between the air elements and the land elements and that is why we are beginning to see the result of that coordination,” he said.

The News agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports the chief of air staff saying that the significance of the exercise was to keep the minds and body of officers and men fit and ready to combat insurgency.

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