Jutha Gupah, Maiduguri
September 1, 2022.
The Air Task Force (ATF), Operation Hadin Kai (OPHK) has killed no less than 49 Boko Haram terrorists in Sambisa Forest hideouts in Borno state.
The airstrikes were conducted by the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) with two Super Tucano fighter jets targeting the terrorists’ camps.
A Counter-insurgency expert, Zagazola Makama, yesterday (Thursday) in Maiduguri, stated that the targeted insurgents’ camps are located in Gargash, Minna and Gazuwa communities of Bama Council.
According to him, the airstrikes targeted a moving truck of the terrorists in Gargash killing all its occupants on Thursday.
Besides, he added that combat aircraft took another turn attacking targets at another location at Minna,
He noted that the fighter jet hits on the hideouts leading to the killing of several Boko Haram fighters while others fled with gunshot wounds.
Continued; “On August 31, another air strike was conducted in Gazuwa after Intelligence Surveillance revealed large presence of the terrorists,” adding that they were engaged in some sort of illegal transactions.
The ATF, according to him, detailed its fighter jets to attack the two camps, killing scores of them with the destruction of their weapons in flames.
“About 29 terrorists were killed in Gazuwa, a truck with four fighters were also neutralized at Gargash while 16 others fighters met their waterloo in Minna,” he said.
He noted that the Air force, operating in concert with surface forces, will sustained its offensives against the terrorists in the North-East.
The Chief of the Air Staff (CAS), Air Marshal Oladayo Amao, had charged NAF operational Commanders to ‘show no mercy’ to the terrorists hibernating in the forest.
Amao, therefore directed the ATF personnel to employ maximum firepower against the terrorists posing security threats in the country.
