Nigeria Air Force signs spare part deal with Innoson

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Chief of Air Staff, AVM Sadique Abubakarsadiq
The Nigerian Air Force and Innoson Vehicle Manufacturing Company on Wednesday signed a Memoranda of Understanding (MoU) that would see the company produce spare parts for the air force fighter jets.
NAN reports that the move is aimed at intensifying the campaign against insurgency especially in the North Eastern parts of the country.
The Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar, who made this known to newsmen in Nnewi, Anambra, explained that the MoU helped the air force to keep its jet fleet running for months.
Abubakar, who was represented by the Chief Of Policy and Plans, Air Vice-Marshal James Gbum, said that the MoU would further solidify the collaboration, improve local content and engineering as well as save the country a lot of foreign exchange hitherto used to import expensive spare parts.
“Our war efforts will be in vain if we don’t do something to ensure that we get spare parts.
“For instance, we were down to one or two of our fighter aircrafts – the Alpha Jets that have formed the backbone of our struggle against Boko Haram – due to lack of spare parts, mainly the break assemblies of these aircrafts.
“The Chief of Air Staff (Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar) immediately ordered our research and development cell in Ka’inji to start to research into this break assembly overhaul.
“They went ahead, carried out the research, (however) the first proto-type they brought couldn’t pass the test.
“The Nigerian Air Force later discovered that Innoson Vehicle Maintenance Company at Nnewi are very capable of collaborating with the Nigerian Air Force to achieve the required standards of overhauling our break assemblies.
“The company was invited to headquarters Nigerian Air Force for discussion and thereafter went into research and development collaboration with the Nigerian Air Force and the result was successful.
“To this effect, …Read More

Source:: PM Newspaper