The Coordinator, Defence Media Operations, Major General John Enenche, in a statement on Friday said the airstrikes were executed on Thursday following credible intelligence on the presence of the bandits in the forest.
Browsing: NAF fighter jet
The Defence Headquarters has disclosed that several Boko Haram Terrorists have been neutralised in air strikes executed by the Air Component of Operation Lafiya Dole at Valangide in the Sambisa Forest area of Borno.
The deployment of the ISR aircraft is expected to enhance intelligence gathering while the combat helicopter would conduct armed reconnaissance and other combat air support operations in close coordination with surface forces deployed to the State.
On October 30, 2017, the NAF conducted an air interdiction mission on a blue-roofed structure in TALALA, a Boko Haram infested location in Sambisa.
The air interdiction, according to the spokesman of the Nigerian Army, Colonel Sani Usman, took place on Friday.
Usman said the attack took place while the terrorists were performing their Friday rituals at Taye village, Gombale general area within Sambisa forest in Borno State
In the statement, the Nigerian Air Force said: “It is pertinent to state that the video is not only a ruse but another mischievous effort by the dying sect to draw public attention to itself