Nigerian Air Force, Innoson sign MOU for Fighter Jets' Spare
Parts
To prosecute the war against Boko Haram insurgency in the
North-east geo-political zone with great effectiveness, the Nigerian Air Force
today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Innoson Vehicle
Manufacturing Company, an indigenous car manufacturing company, for research
and production of spare parts for its fighter jets.
The efforts are to ensure that aerial battle against the
Islamic extremists are not encumbered as a result of lack of spare parts to fix
broken down fighter jets and also use the opportunity to encourage local
manufacturers.
The Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar, told journalists
at the company's headquarters at Nnewi, Anambra State, that the collaboration
between the company and the Air Force had kept its Jet fleet running for months
now.
Abubakar, who was represented by the Chief Of Policy and
Plans, Air Vice-Marshal James Gbum, said that the MoU would further solidify
the collaboration, improve local content and engineering as well as serve the
country a lot of foreign exchange used in importing the expensive parts.
``Our war efforts will be in vain if we don’t do something
to ensure we get spare parts because, the Alpha Jets for instance one of our
fighter aircraft; that have form the back-bone of our struggle against Boko
Haram, we were (once) down with one or two at most due to lack of spare parts
and mainly the break assemblies of these aircrafts,” he said.
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