The Chief of Air Staff, Air Vice Marshal Sadiq Abubakar has disclosed that over 300 insurgents were killed during a night airstrike on Boko Haram terrorists in Borno State.
The CAS who spoke at the commissioning of a borehole and 30 bedroom Emergency Hospital built by the Nigeria Airforce at Bama IDPs Camp described the operation as a very successful one, stressing that they can never attack innocent people again.
The CAS said “we have intensified our airstrikes in recent weeks especially on the 19th of August. We strike the terrorist in en mass. I am happy about our last night operations, at least 300 of the terrorists were killed in that operations, they can never wake to fight us again,”
” I urge you to continue this jobs you are doing here, there is no hidden place for them, we shall continue to strike them until we clear them, ” AVM Abubakar said.
He called on the insurgents to “come out wherever they are and surrender and face justice or they die”.