NAF reacts to media reports of deploying 100 aircraft to search for abducted school girls
The Nigerian Air Force on Tuesday, February 27, denied it had deployed 100 fighter jets in the search for the 110 schoolgirls abducted from Government Girls Science and Technical College (GGSTC), Dapchi, Yobe state on Monday, February 19.
The director of public relations and information, Air Vice Marshal Olatokunbo Adesanya, in a statement said the air force deployed sorties and not 100 aircraft for the search of the abducted Dapchi school girls.
Read the statement below:
"The attention of the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) has been drawn to a statement being circulated to the effect that 100 NAF aircraft had been deployed in search of the missing Dapchi girls.
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While paying a courtesy call on the Executive Governor of Yobe State, in company of the Chief of the Air Staff, on 27 February 2018, the National Security Adviser, Mohammed Monguno, indeed spoke about the number of sorties so far conducted by NAF aircraft in the course of searching for the missing girls within a stated period.
Obviously, the number of sorties does not equate the number of aircraft deployed."
According to an earlier report by Legit.ng, the federal government revealed that the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) deployed at least 100 fighter jets as the search for the 110 schoolgirls abducted on February 19, while the Chief of Air Staff (CAC) Sadique Abubakar relocated to Yobe state.
The Nation reports that 20 of the jets have flown 200 hours as at late Monday, February 26, according to a fact sheet on the search released by Lai Mohammed, the information minister.
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The report also quoted Babagana Monguno, the National Security Adviser (NSA), who visited Governor Ibrahim Gaidam in Damaturu, the Yobe state, on Tuesday, February 27, as announcing that 80 other planes would join the search for the girls.
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Source: Legit.ng
