The attention of the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) has been drawn to media report on apprehension and panic by members of the public living around the area of ongoing air operations at AREPO and its environs. Thus, it has become necessary to allay the fear of the people with a view to sustaining public confidence and support for the ongoing operations against pipeline-vandals codenamed OPERATION AWATSE in the South West region of the Country. Therefore, the NAF wishes to assure the general public, within the affected areas, of their safety as the ongoing air operation is carefully planned to avoid collateral damage to the civil populace and property.

The NAF is careful to ensure that only legitimate targets, such as observation post, anti-aircraft gun position, boats laden with suspected stolen petroleum products and armed combatants, are selected for strike. In aligning with this global best practice, the NAF usually undertakes surveillance flights before and after each strike to mitigate incidental harm to civilians and property. While pre-strike assessment missions are undertaken to help identify and select legitimate military targets for neutralisation, post-strike or Battle Damage Assessment missions are meant to ascertain whether the desired degree of impact was achieved or not, and if a follow-up re-attack is required. It may also be necessary to state that NAF pilots are adequately trained, and as professionals, would not engage in human right violations and abuses. The successes recorded in the past 5 days since the NAF commenced strike mission in AREPO, in support of surface forces under OPERATION AWATSE, attest to this display of absolute professionalism by NAF pilots involved in the operation as no single incident of collateral damage has been recorded.

Meanwhile, it is necessary to add that the NAF, working in collaboration with men of the Nigerian Navy Special Boat Services (SBS), has set on fire the hideouts and camps used by the pipeline vandals in Arepo. As a result, Community leaders and members of the public with useful information on the whereabouts of the fleeing vandals and other criminal elements are please requested to oblige such information to the Security Agencies. Furthermore, the civil populace is please advised not to panic but to go about their legitimate businesses


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Some people who love and endorse crime will still come and Dispute dz. Once again Kudos to the Nigerian forces. Flush em out of our region.

Where are the online slaves of the vandals?

I mean where are the ugufarians? or is it the developers of indonesia? or the OSU Yeeboe?

Where are the idiots peddling falsehood that 1800 civilians have been killed?

Ndi Ara

So the Millitants are now homeless.

Eh yah...... they should relocate to the Southeast where they'll be welcomed as heroes.

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Indocid or is it Indonesians Ugandans will be sad to see the homes of their dear criminal millipedes or militants up in flames.

Kudos to the Nigerian Military.

A r'aye oshi ni SW.

This is a warning to the SS militants who feel they are above the law or impenetrable. Their creeks can be leveled quite easily, but the FG is giving them a long rope. That way they can hang themselves, and it would be wholly justifiable.

The personal lords and saviours of the Ugandan ugutarians are getting killed in their numbers

How do they differentiate the home of poor people living in this slump from that of millitant? Hope them no go citizens in them name of vandals ooo

why won't the resident fear, since they know who they are dealing with.

The NAF should relentlessly rain fire on all those Ijaw Militant still holed up, hiding in the mangrove Creeks of Lagos and Ogun state till they are completely obliterated

In wailer's voice:

Na lie.. This is not Arepo, infact the place is not even Nigeria.

Awon Oponu ayirada

Those that claims NAF are killing the Yoruba's, this is for you...
lalasticlala a lot of lies is flying out there, let the people know the truth