The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) neutralised scores of terrorists around Shiroro-Kaduna transmission area while providing protection for electricity deployed to fix damaged power infrastructure to restore electricity to the north.
It has emerged that the terrorists, who were planning to wreck more havocs on the critical facilities and possibly kidnap or kill the electricity workers, were bombed on Friday when the fighter jets of the force rained airstrikes on them.
About 17 states in the north were thrown into darkness for over a week, following the destruction of electricity towers; a major conduit supplying electricity to the north, by the terrorists.
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu directed the National Security Adviser (NSA), Minister of Defence and the Service Chiefs to order troops to provide cover for electricity workers to enable them to carry out necessary repairs on the damaged infrastructure.
Giving an update Monday night, the spokesman of NAF, Olusola Akinboyewa, disclosed that the intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions carried out by the service confirmed the presence of terrorist fighters in the area.
Akinboyewa, an Air Commodore, explained that they were converging to disrupt the repair of the transmission line, adding that the terrorists were subsequently engaged and several of them were killed in the process.
