Boko Haram: Nigerian Air Force spends N400m in 3 months fueling jets

-Nigerian Air force spent N400m to fuel jets to combat Boko Haram insurgencies within 3 months.

The Nigerian Air Force says over N400m was spent between July and September 2017 to fuel fighter jets deployed to North-East to tackle the Boko Haram insurgencies.

Air Commodore Tajudeeen Yusuf, the Air Component Commander of Operation Lafiya Dole, disclosed this in Maiduguri, Borno State.

Yusuf said the air force fighter aircraft flew for a total of 1,551 hours and 39 minutes within this period, noting that a total of 842 missions were also carried out during the period under review.

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“The air efforts in the third quarter of 2017 as compared to the previous quarter show an increase in activities based on the upsurge of day and night Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance as well as Armed Reece sorties to identify targets for interdiction.

“We also conducted several missions in support of ground troops.

“Overall, from July to September 2017, a total of 842 missions were conducted in 1,162 sorties with a total of 1,551 hours and 39 minutes flown by the various platforms. For all these sorties, a total of 1,596,165 litres of Jet-A1 was consumed, which translates to a fuel cost of N399,041,250,” he said.