Vanguard reports that the Airforce Alpha jets bombed some key facilities of Boko Haram and killed one of the sect’s kingpin during the operation.

The Aiforce, on February 2, 2016, also destroyed the terrorists' logistics base at Garin Moloma, about one kilometer north of the Sambisa Forest.

According to the Director of Air Force Public Relations, Group Captain Ayodele Famuyiwa, the hideouts of the sect in Yobe state has been destroyed and their movements destabilised.

Famuyiwa said “The target was selected after careful Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) by NAF Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicle, UCAV.

“The mission, that was carried out in support of surface forces to further degrade the fighting capacity of the remnants of the insurgents, was successful. The target was probably an ammunition depot, a fuel dump or a facility housing other combustible materials.

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“This effort is likely to create certain logistics constraints for the terrorists along the Allagarno axis.  This is a follow-up to other interdiction missions previously carried out in Sambisa forest, Kumshe, Iza and other suspected terrorists’ hide-outs.”

Meanwhile troops from 22 Brigade Garrison on Sunday, March 20, 2016, killed a Boko Haram commander and 18 others.

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