The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) on Wednesday said.
The
Chief of Air Staff (CAS), AVM Sadique Abubakar,
has given an assurance that Boko Haram terrorists
would no longer be allowed to move freely to slaughter citizens or capture
military units in the North-East. This was contained speech at a 2-day seminar
on Standards and Evaluation tagged "The Imperative of Standards and Evaluation in the Nigerian Air
Force’’. The seminar was organised by NAF.
In his words, "So far, the air operations in the North-East are creating the enabling environment for the army to move unhindered in the conduct of their operation.
"We have substantially degraded the capacity of the terrorists to move freely in Toyota Hilux vehicles ravaging villages and murdering innocent citizens.
"God willing, they will never move freely again to slaughter our citizens or capture our military units.
"We will continue to do our best to meet our statutory responsibility of defending the territorial integrity of the nation, acting singly or in concert with other security agencies, " he said.
Abubakar said that NAF regarded safety as a core function and as such it would strive to develop, implement, maintain and constantly review its safety strategies to ensure that operations were conducted with acceptable risk level.
He said that the Standard and Evaluation Branch was one of the most important branches in the NAF.
"Because once you have a sound standard and evaluation branch, people would operate according to standard.
"This will prevent us from running into problems of safety, because people will be operating according to the laid down regulations of safety, especially at times such as now when you have scarcity of resources.
"We cannot afford to lose anything, whether our pilot or equipment," he said.
The CAS, however, urged the standard and evaluation branch to sensitise all stakeholders on how to properly maintain the equipment, personnel and assets entrusted to them in order to derive maximum value from them.
In his words, "So far, the air operations in the North-East are creating the enabling environment for the army to move unhindered in the conduct of their operation.
"We have substantially degraded the capacity of the terrorists to move freely in Toyota Hilux vehicles ravaging villages and murdering innocent citizens.
"God willing, they will never move freely again to slaughter our citizens or capture our military units.
"We will continue to do our best to meet our statutory responsibility of defending the territorial integrity of the nation, acting singly or in concert with other security agencies, " he said.
Abubakar said that NAF regarded safety as a core function and as such it would strive to develop, implement, maintain and constantly review its safety strategies to ensure that operations were conducted with acceptable risk level.
He said that the Standard and Evaluation Branch was one of the most important branches in the NAF.
"Because once you have a sound standard and evaluation branch, people would operate according to standard.
"This will prevent us from running into problems of safety, because people will be operating according to the laid down regulations of safety, especially at times such as now when you have scarcity of resources.
"We cannot afford to lose anything, whether our pilot or equipment," he said.
The CAS, however, urged the standard and evaluation branch to sensitise all stakeholders on how to properly maintain the equipment, personnel and assets entrusted to them in order to derive maximum value from them.
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