NAF Airstrikes Deal Heavy Blow to Terrorist Networks in North-East and North-West

According to the Nigerian Air Force, through a series of planned, intelligence-led missions, its soldiers have maintained an unremitting air interdiction campaign against terrorist elements.

The joint task forces of Operations HADIN KAI and FASAN YAMMA SECTOR 2 conducted the operations throughout the North-East and North-West, according to a statement from Air Commodore Ehimen Ejodame, Director of Public Relations and Information, Headquarters, Nigerian Air Force.

“Acting on actionable intelligence on terrorist intent, movement, and logistics, NAF air assets were decisively employed to strike identified hideouts, movement routes, and assembly areas,” the statement said.

It added that well hidden terrorist enclaves at Abirma and Chiralia within the Timbuktu Triangle were the target of multiple precision strikes in the North-East theater.

Targeted buildings were demolished by the strikes, and numerous secondary explosions were seen, which was an obvious sign that explosive stocks and vital supplies had been eliminated.

The statement said, “Further interdiction operations at Guva in the Mandara Mountains further dismantled terrorist storage and coordination nodes, severely degrading their ability to regroup, resupply, or mount attacks during the festive period and beyond.”

According to the statement, the campaign was concurrently expanded into the North-West with a decisive air interdiction mission around Karaduwa Giginya Na in Katsina State’s Matazu Local Government Area. The mission tracked terrorist movement on large motorcycle convoys and engaged them at a forested convergence point.