The Air Task Force component of Operation LAFIYA DOLE has flown about 1,700 hours during which it attacked over 33 different Boko haram targets in the last four months.
NAF spokesperson, Air Commodore Ibikunle Daramola disclosed this in a statement on Wednesday.
He said this was achieved in “889 Air Interdiction; Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR); Battle Damage Assessment (BDA); Close Air Support as well as Tactical Airlift missions executed in 1,075 sorties with about 1.6 Million litres of Jet A-1 fuel expended from 1 January 2020 till date.”
He said the ATF Commander, Air Commodore Precious Amadi, while briefing the Chief of the Air Staff, Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar, in Maiduguri has disclosed that the ATF had continued to pursue its mandate of contributing to the total defeat of the terrorists in order to bring peace to the North East.
According to him, in the First Quarter of 2020, the ATF had conducted several subsidiary independent operations including Operations RATTLE SNAKE 2 & 3 and Operation DECISIVE EDGE, while also providing effective support for the Multi-National Joint Task Force and allied partners in order to decimate, dislocate and deny the BHTs freedom of action.
“The ATF, with its sustained aerial bombardments of identified BHT targets, has continued to shape the battle space to create the enabling environment for the operation Lafiya Dole Land Component to operate more effectively as evidenced by the successes recorded in the ongoing joint subsidiary operation, codenamed Operation KANTANA JIMLAN,” he said.
