Location of Missing Alpha Jet still unknown
Three days after a Nigerian Air Force Alpha jet on a mission to rout
Boko Haram insurgents in Adamawa border towns got missing, reports
indicated that the missing jet was yet to be found.
The Alpha Jet (NAF 466) was reported by Nigeria’s Defence Headquarters to have got missing on Friday.
The aerial bombardments, insiders say, have left the Boko Haram
insurgents suffering extensive losses in men and equipment, though
reports say that as the military bombed their locations from above, the
terrorists also began to plot against the aircraft carrying out the
operation.
Meanwhile, soldiers fighting the Boko Haram insurgents in the
northern parts of Adamawa have alleged that they are not well fed and
have been operating on empty stomachs for days.
Some of the soldiers expressed fear of more dissertations should the
authorities continue to show poor attitude towards their welfare. They
urged the authorities to provide them with modern equipment so they
could face the insurgents squarely.
“There are increasing cases of saboteurs in our operations. We are
poorly equipped; sometimes, bullets are rationed, yet we are to go and
confront well equipped militants.
“Many of us have overstayed here – no transfer, as if we are the only
soldiers in this country. Our allowances are not paid as at when due,”
one of the soldiers in Michika stated.
