The Nigerian Air Force (NAF), yesterday, said it has deployed a contingent of 200 men and air assets, to Dakar, from where it is expected operate into The Gambia.
Other platforms deployed to Dakar, as part of Nigerian contingent of Economic Community of West African States Military Intervention in Gambia (ECOMIG), include fighter jets, transport aircraft, Light Utility Helicopter as well as Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance aircraft.
The Director of Public Relations and Information, Group Captain Ayodele Famuyiwa, who made this known, said the NAF contingent, led by Air Commodore Tajudeen Yusuf, was airlifted yesterday morning from the 117 Air Combat Training Group, Kainji.
He listed other countries that have deployed troops to Gambia, to forestall hostilities or breakdown of law and order that may result from the current political impasse there, to include Senegal, Ghana and countries within the sub-region.
Famuyiwa, in a statement, said the Chief of Air Staff (CAS), Air Marshall Sadiq Abubakar, while addressing members of the contingent shortly before their departure, urged them to be disciplined and professional in their conduct. Abubakar warned that no act of indiscipline by the contingent would be tolerated and charged them to be good ambassadors of Nigeria
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