Benue killings: NAF deploys 1,000 troops, 300 Special Forces

Rose Ejembi, Makurdi
Chief of Air Staff (CAS), Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar, has disclosed that the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) has committed over 1,000 officers and men and 300 Special Forces to curb the security challenges in Benue State.
The CAS disclosed this on Saturday when he led the Chairman, House Committee on Defence (Air Force), Hon. Samson Okwu and other top NAF officers to the commissioning ceremony of single officers quarters and Cancer Screening Center at the NAF Base in Makurdi, the Benue State capital.
Abubakar revealed that NAF had also deployed two F7, two Mi-35 helicopter, one ATR and one 350 King Air surveillance aircraft to participate in the Operation Whirl Stroke targeted at checkmating the farmer/herders clashes in Benue.
“The deployment of 2 X F7, 2 x Mi-35 helicopter,…