ABUJA – The incident of the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) Alpha Jet air­craft (NAF475) and two pilots that went missing on March 31, 2021, has unset­tled the Service, with reports indicating that it was search­ing for the best approach to resolve the mystery.

Military sources told Sunday Independent in Abuja that the NAF was being very careful in the way it handles the matter considering its sensitive nature.

A source said the NAF had chosen the path of silence to avoid implicating statements that may jeopardise ongoing operations.

However, it appears that all is now set for the NAF to take a final position on the matter this week, as the source said there were serious engage­ments in that direction.

Sunday Independent con­tacted the Service to clarify this, asking why it had been so quiet on the matter.

The Service said it was not quiet but that it had been working assiduously on the matter and would speak this week.

Air Commodore Edward Gabkwet, Director of Public Relations and Information (DOPRI), who spoke with Sunday Independent, said lives were involved in the unfortunate incident and, as such, information on it must be property managed.

“We are not quiet. We are very careful. It is not some­thing we rush into. Lives are involved. We must put their families into consideration. We are not quiet. We will speak next week,” the DO­PRI said, assuring that they had been doing something about the incident these past weeks.

It is now one full month since the unfortunate in­cident occurred in Borno State, when the NAF raised the alarm that its Alpha Jet aircraft on mission in Borno state was missing.

https://independent.ng/missing-alpha-jet-naf-may-break-silence-this-week/


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Is the zoo working? Stop deceiving yourself. In the zoo, boko haram is becoming the lion.

Break silence after how many month/s now?

It's a shame that NAF left it's pilots to rot for so long instead of going to evacuate them

The real end users have taken it , it was handed over by the Fulani zealots in power to the Nigerian army number 2

Boko haram now have a fighter jet delivered free by nigeria air force