The Acting Director, Defence Information, Colonel Rabe Abubakar, says that the collaboration between the Nigerian Air Force and the ground troops of the Army is responsible for the recent successes recorded in the war against insurgency.
The Defence Spokesman said this when a group of journalists visited him in his office at the Defence Headquarters, Abuja on Monday.
He also attributed the feat recorded so far to motivation and injection of right arsenal in the prosecution of the battle against insurgency as well as the renewed commitment of the military leadership and the determination of the troops in the mission areas, to end the insurgency.
Colonel Abubakar stated that the issue of insurgency in Nigeria will soon be the thing of the past.
“The brilliant coordination between the air element of the Nigerian Air Force and the ground troops of the Nigerian Army that has uprooted the Boko Haram insurgency from their strongholds, including their several camps in Sambisa forest.”
He also urged Boko Haram insurgents “to have a rethink, lay down their arms and abandon their strange and uncivilized ideology for the betterment of mankind.”
Furthermore, Colonel Abubakar reassured the public that the Defence Headquarters is re-strategising to halt the issue of suicide bombings.
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