The military authority has said the detailed assault on the Kaduna International Airport happened six kilometers from the terminal and outside the Airport edge fence.
The military said that 12 of the bandits, who were quickly given a hot pursue, were killed through air strike, DAILY POST reports.
Samuel Aruwan, Kaduna State Commissioner of Internal Security and Home Affairs, Garrison Command 1 Division Nigerian Army, Brig-General Uriah Opuene and Air Force Base Commander, Air Commodore Ademuyiwa Adedoyin drove columnists on an appraisal visit through the location of the assault.
Brig-General Opuene, while instructions newsmen, made sense of that the Kaduna International Airport is extremely gotten, guaranteeing that there are a few layers of safety at the Airport and that bandits could never have thought for even a moment to go after it.
He expressed that primer examinations uncovered that the bandits were simply going through the rear of the Airport towards Riyawa town, focusing on that they located the security man drew in by the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) to look after their metrological gear around the hub.
As per him, "As may be obvious, this spot is around six kilometers from the Airport terminal. The bandits were possibly passing behind the air terminal edge fence when they saw the security man connected by NAMA and they terminated at him. They just exploited that to pass a message."
He made sense of that even the principal layer was not penetrated.
"Thus, as you can see from the distance, the suggestion outside that the psychological militants assumed control over the Airport isn't right. In the event that the fear mongers had entered, they would have met us there," he said.
Additionally speaking, Air Commodore Adedoyin, the NAF Base Commander likewise made sense of that security around the Airport general region had been amplified since the security of the Nigerian Defense Academy (NDA) was penetrated last year, adding that bandits don't have the boldness to go after the Kaduna Airport.
He guaranteed that the Airport is protected and gotten, adding that the State Government was connecting with residents in networks around the Airport to increase insight gathering.
He guaranteed that there was no danger to the quick area of the Airport in light of the fact that the military were in front of the bandits.