The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) jets on Monday, August 1, 2016 struck at criminal hideouts and camps harbouring pipeline vandals at Arepo and environs, this is according to Group Capt. Ayodele Famuyiwa, Director of Public Relations & Information.

It was gathered from the statement released by Famuyiwa that the latest air strike is in continuation of the aerial bombardment commenced by the NAF on Thursday, July 28, 2016 to rid the affected areas of pipeline vandals and other criminal elements.

The statement added, “The ongoing air operations is aimed at providing air support for the Joint Task Force recently set-up by the Defence Headquarters to dislodge pipeline vandals in the South West region of the Country in an operation codenamed OPERATION AWATSE.

Below are photos of the operation: