The Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Hassan Abubakar, on Saturday, said the era of treating criminals terrorising the corporate existence of the country with kid gloves was over.
This was as he vowed that the force would be decisive and ruthless in tackling the war against insurgency as well as ridding off criminal elements in the country.
Represented by the Air Officer Commanding, Air Training Command, Kaduna, Air Vice Marshal Nnamdi Ananaba, the CAS stated this during the graduation of 628 Officers and Airmen/Women of year 2023 of the Air Force Institute of Technology, Kaduna, on Saturday.
SPLASH9JA reports that the institute is a military university with the mandate of training military and civilian students in aerospace, defence, and engineering as well as other fields.
Abubakar charged the graduates to be good ambassadors of the Nigerian Air Force, noting that at a time like this, the NAF needs to operate optimally to effectively address the current spate of insecurity across the country.
He said, “Let me reiterate here that the era of treating criminal elements in our country with kids’ gloves is over. We must continue on this trajectory until we bring all of them to their knees.
“Therefore, as you rejoin the mainstream workforce of the Nigerian Air Force, your contributions would be instrumental to our collective efforts to sustain and even surpass the current intensity of air operations until we completely rid our country of all forms of criminalities.
“The Air Force Institute of Technology is one of the Nigerian Air Force’s foremost training institutions positioned to facilitate one key enabler of my philosophy which is deliberate training and mission-oriented force development.
“Let me congratulate the entire staff of AFIT for successfully executing the sundry military programmes and graduating 628 officers and airmen/airwomen today. Undoubtedly, it is through these programmes that the Institute enhances the quality of skilled technical manpower of the NAF, this has largely contributed to the NAF’s current status of being more self-reliant for our platforms and equipment maintenance.”
