The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) has stepped up efforts to rescue the missing students of Government Girls’ Science Technical College in Dapchi, Yobe State.
In this regard, it has deployed more air assets to the North East to ensure that success is achieved in the rescue mission.
The Air Force said although it had earlier quietly deployed some of its resources to searching for the girls, it was to no avail.
It was in this light that more resources were deployed to be able to achieve result.
The efforts of the Air Force are contained in a statement issued on Sunday by the Director of Public Relations and Information, NAF, Olatokunbo Adesanya.
The statement reads in part: “Although these search operations were conducted in a covert manner, for obvious reasons, the efforts did not yield the desired results.
“Accordingly, the Chief of the Air Staff (CAS), Sadique Abubakar, directed the immediate deployment of additional air assets and NAF personnel to the north-east with the sole mission of conducting day and night searches for the missing girls.
“It is noteworthy that the renewed efforts at locating the girls are being conducted in close liaison with other surface security forces.
“While the NAF will spare no efforts at possibly locating the girls via its air operations, it also seizes this opportunity to call on anyone, especially the locals, who might have any information that could lead to the location of the girls to bring such information forward to NAF authorities or other relevant security agencies.”
