The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) again on
Monday struck at Arepo and environs identified as criminal hideouts and camps
harbouring pipeline vandals.
Group Captain Ayodele Famuyiwa the NAF
spokesman said in statement that “the latest air strike is in continuation of
the aerial bombardment commenced by the NAF on Thursday 28 July 2016 to rid the
affected areas of pipeline vandals and other criminal elements.”
The ongoing air operations is aimed at
providing air support for the Joint Task Force recently set-up by the Defence
Headquarters to dislodge pipeline vandals in the South West region of the
Country in an operation codenamed OPERATION AWATSE.
There are strong indications based on analysis
of footage on Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR), as well as
Strike and, Battle Damage Assessment (BDA) missions undertaken by NAF aircraft
that the vandals have been sufficiently displaced from their current locations
at AREPO while their criminal activities have also been heavily disrupted.
The NAF however is intensifying its ongoing
air operations day and night to neutralise the remnants of the vandals who
might have relocated deep inside the Mangrove Forest,he stated. NAF is at
present operating in 4 zones across the country to tackle various forms of
internal security challenges.
They include insurgency in the North
East; cattle rustling, kidnapping and armed robbery in the North West;
militancy in the South-South; and pipeline vandalism in the South West.
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