Insurgency: We’Re Doing Everything Possible to Locate Chibok Girls, Free All Captives – Air Chief.

Insurgency: We’re doing everything possible to locate Chibok girls, free all captives – Air Chief.

Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar, at the weekend expressed optimism that the Chibok school girls would be rescued alongside every other Nigerian kidnapped by Boko Haram insurgents.

Speaking when he inspected various on-going projects of the Nigerian Air Force Tactical Air Command (TAC) in Makurdi, Benue State, Abubakar said everything was being done to free captives of the insurgents.

“What I can tell you is that we are doing everything humanly possible to deal with all the challenges that are currently facing us in the insurgency going on. That of course involves our trying to locate not only the Chibok girls but every Nigerian that is kidnapped.

“We are working day and night through intelligence gathering and surveillance. We are expending a lot of flying hours to make sure we are able to locate Chibok girls and every Nigerian that is kidnapped” he said.

The Air Chief who expressed satisfaction with the progress of work at various stages in the command, said the projects were being executed to provide the right environment for personnel in the fight against insurgents in the northeast.

He said the impact of the Air Force against the insurgents in recent times indicated that the Nigerian military was winning the fight because “We are there degrading the capacity of the insurgents and also ensuring that the surface force, (the Army) is able to operate with little or no hindrance, and so all the units involved are doing everything to impact positively on what is going on in the northeast.”

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