CALABAR- NIGERIAN Airforce plane, M9 24
gunship has in the past three days been bombarding creeks along the Cross River
and Akwa Ibom waterways serving as hideout for sea criminals and kidnappers.
Air Commodore Charles Ohwo, Commander 207
Mobility Group told Vanguard on Thursday that the bombardment of the creeks is
in response to the increasing wave of criminal activities in Cross River and
Akwa Ibom States where the criminals are using difficult to access areas as
their hide out and operational base.
He said several kidnappings have taken place
in Cross River State in the recent past including the attack on the Marine
Police Station at the Inyang Edem Beach on Sunday night.
“The increasing wave of crime along the Cross
River and Akwa Ibom Waterways prompted the Chief of Naval Staff Air Marshall
Adesola Amosu through the Commander of 207 Mobility, Air Vice Marshal F B
Nyoyoko to instruct the 207 Mobility Group deploy M9 24 gunship to bombard the
creeks to rid the area of these hoodlums”.
Commodore Ohwo said the exercise has so far
recorded successes as some criminal hideouts have been hit and that the
bombardment will be a continuous exercise to completely rid the creeks of sea
criminals.
“The Airforce is willing and ready to deploy
its speed and mobility advantage to carry out continuous raids on these
criminal hideouts and operational base around the Cross River and Akwa Ibom
Waterways extending to Bayelsa State” He stressed.
He stated the exercise has been in cooperation
with the police, army and navy and that another aircraft, M1 17 will soon be
deployed to boost the capacity of the mobility group in bombarding the criminal
hideouts.
VANGUARD
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