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NAF airstrikes eliminate terrorists hideouts in North-East
The Nigerian Air Force has stepped up its offensive against insurgents in the North-East, launching a series of targeted airstrikes on key terrorist enclaves in Sambisa and the Tumbuns.
Details of the operation were made public on Friday by the Director of Public Relations and Information, Air Commodore Ehimen Ejodame, who said the strikes were executed under the Air Component of Operation HADIN KAI.
According to him, the renewed assault reflects a stronger and more sustained push to weaken insurgent activities in the region.
“NAF under the Air Component of Operation HADIN KAI has intensified the tempo of its air campaign in the North-East, unleashing sustained and aggressive precision strikes that are systematically dismantling terrorist networks across Sambisa and the Tumbuns,” he said.
According to him, “Acting on credible intelligence, NAF aircraft struck decisively at insurgent enclaves, obliterating hideouts, crippling logistics hubs, and neutralising scores of fighters in relentless, coordinated attack runs.”
Ejodame said that on April 30, “air assets executed a high-impact Air Interdiction mission at Alafa in the Sambisa axis, where confirmed terrorist infrastructure and supply nodes were swiftly engaged and destroyed in successive strikes.”
He added that the operation continued on May 1 with another strike on Metele in the Tumbuns, noting that “intelligence and surveillance exposed a fortified island stronghold with entrenched fighters, storage facilities, and defensive trench systems.”
“With scores of insurgents confirmed within the target area, NAF aircraft delivered precise and overwhelming firepower, striking and decimating the location,” he said.
He explained that “the sustained intensity of these operations reflects a deliberate strategy of continuous pressure, denying terrorists any space to regroup or operate.”
The statement also quoted the Chief of the Air Staff, Air Marshal Sunday Kelvin Aneke, as saying operations would continue until threats are eliminated.
“He reaffirmed the Service’s unyielding resolve to dominate the battlespace, stressing that operations will persist with increased intensity until all terrorist capabilities are dismantled and threats to national security fully neutralised,” the statement said.
The latest strikes follow an earlier coordinated air operation by NAF targeting terrorist positions in Guduf, located in the Mandara Mountains along Nigeria’s northeastern border with Cameroon, carried out on April 27 based on “credible intelligence and confirmatory Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance reports,” according to the Air Force.
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