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NAF Deploys Surveillance Aircraft for Election
Monitoring
Ahead of the rescheduled 2019 General Elections, the Chief of
the Air Staff (CAS), Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar has met with
Headquarters Nigerian Air Force (HQ NAF) Principal Staff Officers
and Air Officers Commanding (AOCs) of the 6 NAF Field Commands. The
meeting was aimed at further sensitizing the PSOs and AOCs on the
need to ensure that all NAF personnel remain apolitical whilst
carrying out their duties of providing necessary support to the
lead agency, the Nigeria Police, along with other civil security
agencies, in ensuring peaceful conduct of the General
Elections.
The meeting also provided avenue for the CAS to be briefed on
the emergency contingency plans of the 6 Commands for their Areas
of Responsibility (AORs) as well as the deployment of NAF aircraft
assigned for support operations during the Elections, including
surveillance aircraft that would be deployed to potential
flashpoints to provide real-time imagery intelligence that would be
streamed live to the HQ NAF Situation Room as well as Command
Situation/Operations Rooms across the country.
Air Marshal Abubakar used the opportunity to again remind the
PSOs and AOCs to ensure that NAF Personnel are professional and
decisive in the discharge of their duties. He also urged them to
work very closely with other security agencies to ensure that no
individual or group of individuals undermine the electoral process.
He noted that Commanders would be held personally responsible for
any lapses. The CAS reiterated that personnel must remain
apolitical and sternly resist any entreaties by unscrupulous and
self centered individuals who are more concerned about their
personal interests than the nation’s interests. He implored the
PSOs and AOCs to ensure that subordinate Commanders remain focused
on the discharge of their assigned tasks, whilst encouraging their
personnel not on essential duties to exercise their legitimate
rights to vote.
The general public is to please be assured that the NAF, working
in conjunction with the Nigeria Police and other security agencies,
would ensure the safety and security of all Nigerians before,
during and after the elections. All eligible voters are therefore
encouraged to come out in mass to exercise their constitutionally
guaranteed rights to vote for the candidates of their choice on
election days.
IBIKUNLE DARAMOLA
Air Commodore
Director of Public Relations and Information
Nigerian Air Force