NAF destroys ISWAPs’ hideout at Kusuma in Borno

The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) has destroyed some facilities at an Islamic State
of West Africa Province (ISWAP) hideout at Kusuma on the fringes of the Lake
Chad.
The NAF said the operation was executed through the Air Task Force (ATF) of
Operation LAFIYA DOLE.
Air Commodore Ibikunle Daramola, NAF Director of Public Relations and
Information, made this known in a statement on Wednesday in Abuja.
Daramola explained that the air strike was conducted on the heels of credible
intelligence reports.
He said the report indicates that a cluster of compounds within the settlement
were being used to house some ISWAP leaders along with their supplies.
“Accordingly, after confirmatory Intelligence, Surveillance and
Reconnaissance (ISR), the ATF detailed its attack aircraft to engage the
location leading to the destruction of the designated structures, some were
engulfed in flames,’’ he said.
Daramola said the NAF, operating in concert with surface forces, would
sustain its air campaign to shape the battle-space in the North East for
effective conduct of further ground and air operations.