The Nigerian Air Force(NAF) says its Air Task Force (ATF) of Operation LAFIYA DOLE, has destroyed another Boko Haram Terrorists (BHTs) Camp at Ngoske in the Sambisa Forest area of Borno. Air Commodore Ibikunle Daramola, NAF Director of Information made this known in a statement on Wednesday in Abuja. He said the operation was executed on Monday under the auspices of ” Operation Rattle Snake”. Operation Rattle Snake is an Air Interdiction Operation, which targets selected locations within the North East to further degrade remnants of terrorists as well as deny them safe havens and freedom of action. “The sustained air strikes being conducted by the Air Task Force (ATF) of Operation LAFIYA DOLE under the auspices of Operation RATTLE SNAKE have yielded further results with the destruction of another Boko Haram Terrorists (BHTs) Camp at Ngoske in the Sambisa Forest area of Borno. ” The operation was executed on Dec. 16, after a NAF Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) aircraft had, over a series of missions, observed a scaling up of terrorists’ activities in some compounds within the settlement. ” Accordingly, the ATF detailed an enhanced force package of attack aircraft to engage the location. ” Overhead the target area, a significant number of terrorists were observed. ” The munitions from the attack aircraft hit the designated location, wiping out a part of the cluster of buildings in the area and neutralising several of the BHT fighters,” he said. Daramola said NAF, operating in concert with surface forces, would sustain its efforts to completely destroy all remnants of the terrorists in the North East

Justice Umar Isa of Upper Area Court III in Yola on Tuesday adjourned judgement on a suspected rape case involving a married man and a 5-year old girl, due to missing of the case file.

News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the little girl was allegedly raped by one Aliyu Mohammed, a 25-year-old married man and resident of Lelewarji Ward in Yola South LGA.

Justice Isa expressed shock when he discovered that no mention was made of the rape case, which judgement was ready.

The judge directed one of the court clerks to go and bring the file, but the clerk went and returned without the file.

He told the judge that he could not trace the file and that the Registrar of the court was not around for him to ask if the Registrar was aware of where the file was kept.

Justice Isa later rescheduled the judgement to Jan. 4, 2020.
Some members of Civil Society Organisations as well as women from Lelewarji Ward, who were in the court for the judgement, expressed sadness over the development.

They pointed out that this was the second time the judgement would be adjourned.
Ms Nuwama Ishaku, the Human Right Desk Officer of Centre for Women and Adolescent Empowerment, Yola, described the development as shocking.

“The other time, it was shifted because of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) Week and today the file is nowhere to be found.
“We are here full of hope that our quest for justice for a survivor of rape is here at last only to get this shock,” she said.

Ms Farah James, a member of Adamawa Coalition Against Rape, also expressed disappointment with the development, adding that the coalition would meet over the development to take a position.
Also speaking, Hadiza Hamidu and Aisha Ahmed, representing women from Lelewarji Ward that reported the allege rape incident, said they were disturbed with the development and hope it was not a deliberate attempt by some interested party to delay or subvert justice.

“We are frightened and disturbed by this development and hope it’s not an attempt to subvert justice,” Ahmed said.