The Nigerian air force says it has destroyed another armed bandits’ hideout and neutralised several of their fighters near Doumbourou Hill in Zamfara.

Ibikunle Daramola, air force director of public relations and information, said the operation was carried out by the air task force of operation Diran Mikiya.

He said in a statement: “The attack was executed yesterday, Jan 2, following human intelligence (HUMINT) reports, which were later confirmed by Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR), missions, indicating that a large number of bandits, armed with high calibre weapons, regularly assemble at a compound around the foot of the hill before going out on operations.

“Accordingly, the ATF scrambled two Nigerian Air Force (NAF) attack helicopters, supported by an ISR platform, to engage the bandits and destroy their compound.

“The helicopters strafed the target area in successive waves of attack, with the first wave causing some damage to the structures and neutralising some of their fighters.

“The second wave was sequenced to engage the armed bandits as they re-emerged out of their hiding places, thus inflicting further fatalities on them.”

Daramola said credible HUMINT sources later revealed that the leader of the group was among those killed during the attack.

He said the ATF would continue to work in close coordination with surface forces and other security agencies, to conduct reconnaissance and air interdiction missions with a view to restoring normalcy to the affected states in the north-west.

https://all-gists..com/2019/01/again-air-force-bombs-bandits-in-zamfara.html

Nigerian Air Force has never been deployed outside our shores in her entire history.

This is the only Air Force on the planet that has only operated within her air space, bombing their own citizens.

Under Buhari, the Air Force has been deployed to virtually all regions to bomb their own citizens.

They have conducted bombing raids in the Niger Delta.

They have bombed Christian communities in Taraba and Adamawa who took up arms to chase the criminal fulanis from their land.

They even bombed parts of Lagos and Ogun to which the Yorubas (surprisingly) cheered them own as the air force bombed their kin.

Story...so na smoky skyline be d 'bandits'? Besides, why do security agencies wait til they are on the defensive and innocent citizens have paid the ultimate price? What happened to gathering intelligence and being proactive? The area is already a known hotbed and red zone so why were these so called bandits allowed to gather, form 'compounds' and launch attacks?