Insurgents May Test Buhari's Might – Air Force Boss
The Chief of Standard and Evaluation, Nigerian Air Force and immediate past Air Officer Commanding (AOC), Training Command of the Nigerian Air‎ Force, Kaduna, Air Vice Marshal Salihu Bala-Riba, has said that the war against Boko Haram insurgency is not over yet.
He said insurgents will want to prove that the incoming regime of General Muhammadu Buhari (retd) cannot do any better than the outgoing government in the fight.
AVM Bala-Riba stated this in Kaduna, on Thursday, when he was handing over to the ‎AVM Alkali Mamu, as the new Air Officer Commanding (AOC), Training Command, Nigerian Air Force, Kaduna.
While expressing delight over the President-elect’s statement that, “Boko Haram will soon see the collective will of all Nigerians”, he reminded officers and men of the armed forces that they are the arrow-head of that collective will, therefore they cannot afford to relax.
According to him, “I was hard on my subordinates to achieve maximum security and excellence in our responsibilities. I had to be very hard because, I would rather die fighting than to be caught up and killed like a sleeping fowl.
“You don’t expect me to allow insurgents take over any barrack under Training Command. If that ‎happens, some civilians will faint in their homes, because they look up to the military to defend them”, he said.
