The Nigerian
Air Force says the Air Task Force of “Operation LAFIYA DOLE” has neutralised
Boko Haram terrorists camps at Zanari and Tunbun Rego, in Borno.
Air
Commodore Ibikunle Daramola, NAF Director of Public Relations and Information,
who disclosed this in a statement on Tuesday in Abuja,said that the operation
was carried out on Monday.
”The NAF ATF
of Operation LAFIYA DOLE has recorded further gains in the ongoing air
interdiction operations designed to wipe out remnants of Boko Haram Terrorists
(BHTs) within the fringes of Lake Chad.
”This
occurred as the ATF on Aug.20 conducted air strikes on BHT camps at Zanari and
Tunbun Rego in Borno State.
”The air
strikes at Zanari were planned and executed based on intelligence reports
indicating that the BHTs had established a training camp in the village and
were converging in an area prior to departing for an attack on own troops locations
around the Lake Chad area.
“Accordingly,
the ATF scrambled II NAF Alpha Jet aircraft for a pre-emptive strike on two
specified locations within Zanari, where the BHTs were assembled,” he said.
Daramola
said that the fighter aircraft acquired and attacked both locations,
neutralizing several BHTs, with only few survivors seen fleeing the area,
adding that ” these were later mopped up by follow-on rocket strikes”.
” Similarly,
another identified BHT rendezvous point and staging area on the outskirts of
Tunbun Rego was also attacked and destroyed by the Alpha Jets,” the spokesman
said.
He said that
the NAF would continue to deploy its platforms to conduct intensive Intelligence
Surveillance and Reconnaissance missions in the entire Northeast aimed at
discovering the possible locations of remnants of BHTs and neutralising them.
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