Contrary to claims that the Boko Haram sect is winning the war in the North-east despite efforts to dislodge it, the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) said the military had decimated the terrorist group.

The Chief of Air Staff (CAS), Air Marshal Adesola Amosun, said this at the weekend at the graduation ceremony of course 2/2014 of the Nigerian Armed Forces Resettlement Centre (NAFRC), Oshodi, organised by the Commandant, Air Vice Marshal Monday Morgan.

Amosun said in an interview with THISDAY that the soldiers in the North-east region had been able to do considerable damage to the operations of the Boko Haram insurgents in the area.

He said the combined efforts of the personnel of NAF alongside other arms of the armed forces had been successful in incapacitating the insurgents.

Amosun further said the military was able to do this by weakening the capabilities of the insurgents and destroying their supply lines.

He also said the NAF had been able to provide strategic and tactical airlift for the army to enable them combat insurgency within the North-eastern part of the country.

CAS said: “Unlike the situation in Mali where the forces fighting insurgents in that area were unable to get strategic airlift, we have been able to support the operations of the military through the airlifting of troops and ability to drop supplies where needed.

“Despite the pressure from the civil populace for the quick resolution of the crisis, the officers and men of the armed forces are not relenting in their effort to flush out the insurgents within the region.”

Earlier, the Minister of Defence, General Aliyu Gusau (rtd), had urged the retirees to always uphold the highest standards of conduct, character, integrity and teamwork as they would be held accountable for these standards even while in retirement.

Gusau, who was represented by the Permanent Secretary in the ministry, Aliyu Numan, said: “As the nation is in the critical stage of battling insurgents in the North-eastern part of the country, a lot is still required from the retiring members of the armed forces.

“Especially wherever they find themselves in the aspect of collaboration with other serving members of the armed forces and other security agencies of our fatherland to completely eradicate this threat of insurgency in our society.”

He also commended the leadership of NAFRC for the vision and commitment to transform the centre into a more robust and rewarding institution through the Public-Private Partnership (PPP) scheme.

Gusau said efforts were on to ensure that the NAFRC bill which will transform the centre to a centre of excellence in handling the retirement of personnel would be passed before the end of the administration.

Also, NAFRC’s Commandant, Air Vice Marshal Morgan, said the PPP scheme would allow the centre the opportunity to tap from the private sector’s management skills, technical expertise and efficiency system for the overall benefit of the centre.

In line with this, he said the governing board of the institution had already approved the scheme in principle, adding that efforts to commence full implementation of the scheme within the shortest possible time are on-going.

The commandant explained that part of the cutting edge innovation being considered at the NAFRC was to link training to entrepreneurship and business development.

He said: “We want to go further not only in providing entrepreneurship training to retiring service personnel, but to fill the gap that has been missing.

“We want to provide seed money and start-up capital to all our successful trainees to start their own micro, small and medium enterprises.

“We are working out the modalities to accomplish this with our technical partners who have access to both local and international funders.”

paulshakur:
These is a false news o. I am tempted to say story for the Gods... Boko Haram is within the cabinet of both APC and PDP thus, until the sponsors are flushed out, I still fear More carnage will occur.

siraj1402:
Same story since.

Meanwhile,

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hushmail:


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