Posted on: 12:46 Sat, 13 Feb 2016



According to the Nigerian Air Force on Friday
night said they may have identified the possible
locations of the abducted Chibok school girls.

The Director of Public Relations of the Air
Force, Group Captain Ayodele Famuyiwa, told
Channels Television that the force has
therefore abstained from attacking the
identified areas to avoid hitting the girls.

The latest aerial bombardment of Sambisa
forest,Famuyiwa said, had been aimed at the
logistics base of the Boko Haram sect and not
areas where the Chibok girls could be located.

He said:“We have no fears that the girls are
not there because that particular location has
been under surveillance for quite a while and
we suspected maybe it’s a kind of ammunition
depot or maybe a workshop that they are using
as their logistics place.

“Once you take off the logistics base, of course
you gradually weaken the resolve of the enemy
to be able to prosecute any campaign.”

Group Captain Famuyiwa said the military is
deploying the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)
to maximum use in its battle with Boko Haram
because it is cheaper to run and reduces lives.

The UAVs,he said : “have the capability to be
airborne for up to eleven hours and they are
quite cheap to maintain. So, we have been able
to employ the UAV to a great extent to carry
out reconnaissance and surveillance basically
for intelligence gathering on the activities of
the Boko Haram.”

He said that the UAVs have also helped the Air
Force to understand the terrorists’ pattern of
movement and “how to be able to counter
them should they want to strike or spring any
surprise”.

The girls were abducted from the Government
Girls Secondary School,Chibok,Borno State.

Ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo said last week
that the girls may never be found again.