Air Commodore Ibikunle Daramola, NAF Director of Public Relations and Information, said on Wednesday in Abuja that the operation of the Air Task Force (ATF) was carried out on Monday.
Daramola explained that an Alpha jet destroyed the insurgent’s camp while providing close air support to ground troops of the 82 Brigade of the Nigerian army.
“In the course of the operation, the ISR aircraft spotted a group of Boko Haram fighters within Arboko village and vectored the Alpha Jet to engage their camp with rocket fire, thereby degrading the terrorists’ structures and neutralising some of their fighters,” he said.
The spokesman said that NAF, operating in concert with surface forces, would sustain its efforts to completely destroy all remnants of the sect in the north-east.