NIGERIAN AIR FORCE POSITION DENIES KNOWING THE LOCATION OF CHIBOK GIRLS

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  1. The attention of the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) has been drawn to a

  statement to the effect that the NAF has located the position of the Chibok girls.

  Please let it be known that this statement is a misrepresentation of the interview

  that the NAF Director of Public Relations gave the Channels Television that was

  aired on Friday 12 February 2016. The NAF is hereby making it categorically

  clear that in the said interview the Director made mention of the NAF’s ability to

  identify POSSIBLE LOCATION that the girls might be in.

  2. Hence, the NAF wishes to categorically state that it has at no time

  identified the specific location of the Chibok girls. However, it is working round

  the clock with surveillance aircraft covering the over 157,000 km area of the

  North East in order to identify the position of not only the Chibok girls but other

  Nigerians that might have been held captives. Towards the realization of this

  goal, the NAF has from January 2016 till date using aircraft, ISR platforms such

  as ATR-42, B-350 and CH-3 UAV flown surveillance missions totaling over 346

  hours consuming about 85,887 litres of Jet A-1 and 3,830 litres of Mogas

  costing N15,337,862:50 and $19,150:00 respectively. Therefore, whilst the

  specific position of the Chibok girls is not yet ascertained by the NAF, we have

  not folded our arms on the surveillance flights and will continue to use these

  
  

  flights to degrade the capacity of the terrorists and as soon as possible locate

  the position of the Chibok girls and other Nigerians that are under captivity.

  3. You are therefore please requested to disseminate the information

  through your mass medium for the awareness of the general public. Thank you

  for your usual cooperation.

  AYODELE FAMUYIWA

  Group Captain

  Director of Public

  Relations & Information