#DapchiGirls: Nigerian Air Force Deploys More Assets To Rescue Missing Students

Helicopter of the Nigerian Air Force to illustrate the story

The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) says it has deployed more assets in a bid to secure the release of the 110 Dapchi school girls abducted by Boko Haram insurgents in Yobe State.

This was disclosed in a statement issued by NAF’s Director of Public Relations and Information, Air Vice Marshal, Olatokunbo Adesanya.

He said, “The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) has deployed additional air assets, including Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) platforms, to the Northeast in a renewed effort at locating the missing Dapchi girls.

“Before now, following confirmation of reports that some of the girls were yet to be accounted for, the NAF had deployed some ISR platforms and helicopters to search for and possibly locate the missing girls as well as the rogue Boko Haram Terrorists (BHTs).

“Although these search operations were conducted in a covert manner, for obvious reasons, the efforts did not yield the desired results.

“Accordingly, the Chief of the Air Staff (CAS), Sadique Abubakar, directed the immediate deployment of additional air assets and NAF personnel to the Northeast with the sole mission of conducting day and night searches for the missing girls.

“It is noteworthy that the renewed efforts at locating the girls are being conducted in close liaison with other surface security forces.

“While the NAF will spare no efforts at possibly locating the girls via its air operations, it also seizes this opportunity to call on anyone, especially the locals, who might have any information that could lead to the location of the girls to bring such information forward to NAF authorities through any of the following GSM numbers: 08122557720, 08035733438, 08172843484 or 08058419128. Such useful information could also be forwarded to other relevant security agencies.”

The Federal Government on Sunday confirmed that 110 schoolgirls were missing after the invasion of Boko Haram on the school last Monday.