Air Force to deploy helicopter gunships to Taraba

By : Charles Akpeji, Jalingo

Date: 20 January 2019 5:18am WAT

A photo taken on July 25, 2017 shows NH90 Caiman transport helicopters piloted by German soldiers taking off from Gao airport in Mali. A German helicopter with two crew on board crashed in northern Mali on July 26 in an apparent accident while monitoring clashes for the peacekeeping force, UN sources told AFP. The UN mission in Mali, MINUSMA, has sent a team to the site to check for possible casualties and find out what happened, said spokesman Farhan Haq in New York. The helicopter cam down near Tabankort, south of Gao. SOULEMAIN AG ANARA / AFP

Plans to permanently put to rest incessant upheavals in Taraba State have been mapped out by the Chief of Air Staff (CAS), Air Marshall Sadique Abubakar.

Among such plans as, yesterday, made known by him in Gembu, the administrative headquarters of Sardauna Council, was the deployment of two Helicopter gunships to be stationed on the Mambilla Plateau.

He explained that the reason for such moves was to combat threat of insecurity in the state and its environs.

The Chief of Air Staff, who was in the area on a tour of the 23 Quick Response Wing of the Nigerian Air Force situated in the council, said the Force was awaiting the arrival of five helicopter gunships from Italy and one MI 35 from Russia “any moment from now.”