Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar, has assured that the Nigerian Military is doing everything humanly possible to rescue the abducted Chibok Girls as well as every Nigerian that has been held by Boko Haram terrorists.
“What I can tell you is that we are doing everything humanly possible to deal with all the challenges in the current insurgency in the north east. That of course involves trying to locate, not only the Chibok girls, but every Nigerian that is kidnapped by these people.”
“We are doing everything possible day and night through intelligence gathering, surveillance and we are expending a lot of flying hours day and night to make sure that we are able to locate not only the Chibok girls but every Nigerian that is kidnapped.”
The CAS stated this in a chat with newsmen while on a one day facility tour of ongoing projects at the Tactical Air Command of the Nigerian Air Force base in Makurdi, the Benue State capital.
He noted that the Nigerian Military was making progress in putting to an end to the reign of terror that has descended on the country, with pockets of bombings here and there in large swathes of the north east.
“If you look at where we are coming from, in May when the present administration came in, to where we are today, it is very clear that we are making very substantial progress. In every insurgency, you will always find isolated cases of explosions where the terrorists take advantage of soft targets to attack and to kill people.”
Abubakar urged Nigerians to cooperate with the Military especially in the area of giving relevant intelligence information that could lead to the arrest of suicide bombers and other members of the dreaded Boko Haram Islamist terror group.
“Every Nigerian has a role to play in this fight by giving us relevant intelligence information about where these suicide bombers are coming from, and where they are being armed. This is information that we can only get from the communities…,” he said