At an interactive session
with journalists in Abuja on Saturday Abubakar the Chief of Air Staff reveal more.
The Chief of Air Staff, Air
Marshal Sadique Abubakar, says the Nigerian Air Force has no accurate
intelligence on whereabouts of the Chibok girls.
Abubakar said……
“Honestly we don’t. That is
the truth of the matter. Even if you see women that are dressed in hijab, how
are you sure they are women; that they are not men? It is only when you get
there and they remove the hijab that you now realise that they are men and they
have their rifles.
“There is no credible
intelligence that will specifically tell you that these girls are here”, he
stated.
He said the air force flew
its planes daily with the hope of sighting the Chibok girls, adding that the
military, like other Nigerians, was passionate about them.
He said, “There is no day
that the sun rises and sets that we do not go out hoping to see these girls.
From January this year to August 17, we flew 2,600 hours. About 50 per cent of
that was Intelligence Surveillance Reconnaissance.
“We are hoping that through
the intelligence, we will be able to capture the movement of those girls; we
will be able to locate what we consider legitimate targets.”
He dismissed the latest
Boko Haram video, where the sect displayed some girls, which it claimed were
killed by military bombardment, as cheap propaganda.
“Even the IED (improvised
explosive device) that they (the sect) developed, have you ever seen a complete
body together after an attack on any location?”
“These guys are just trying
to whip up sentiment because they know that every Nigerian is concerned about
the girls”, he added.
On military operations in
Niger Delta, he said: “We are not going to bomb the Niger Delta; we are going
to protect the people and oil and gas infrastructure.”
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