The Nigerian military took delivery of
two Boeing 747 jets fully loaded with ammunition that arrived the Nnamdi
Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, on Wednesday evening.
The first and second jets, which arrived
around 4pm and 6pm respectively, had various forms of sophisticated
weapons meant for military operations in the North-East, according to
reliable sources at the airport.
It was learnt that the Federal
Government’s intensive campaign against insurgents in the North-East
would be boosted with the arrival of the ammunition.
A security official at the airport, who
pleaded not to be named as he was not authorised to speak on the matter, stated that “the ammunition in these massive cargo jets
show how determined the government is to considerably halt the
activities of Boko Haram within the six weeks which it requested from
INEC (Independent National Electoral Commission).”
“We don’t often see the arrival of heavy
ammo like this in this airport. This one shows there is trouble for
insurgents in the North-East.”
Asked of the registration of the foreign
cargo jets that brought in the heavy ammo and where the aircraft came
from, our source at the NAIA said, “I cannot tell where the ammunitions
were from but they are being offloaded and moved to town one after the
other.”
“The cargo jets are Boeing 747 planes
and one of them has LW Italia written on it. I cannot tell you details
because this is a classified operation and officials of this airport
cannot even get close to see clearly other details of the airplanes. As
you can see, this massive cargo plane can carry so many items than many
other cargo jets.”
It was also gathered that the offloading of the jets started since Wednesday and stretched till Thursday.
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