By Salisu Ismail Kabuga
The Abubakar Shekau-led faction of Boko Haram, Jama’atu Ahlussunnah Lidda’awati Wal Jihad, has released footage of how it shut down the missing Nigerian Air Force (NAF) Alpha Jet Aircraft.
In a video released by the Boko Haram on Friday, the group claimed its members shot down the jet.
The group in the video showed its fighters carrying RPG and artillery equipment, as well as a corpse of the pilot and the aircraft’s debris.
Earlier, this Friday morning, the Nigerian Air Force released statement that, the Alpha Jet aircraft (NAF475) that went off the radar on Wednesday might have crashed.
The fighter jet shot down by the Shekau's led faction of Boko Haram was on surveillance to support troops on the ground fighting insurgents in the Northeast, Borno state.
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