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The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) has donated a borehole and 35,000-litre capableness overhead h2o vessel to Ohe assemblage successful Irrua, Esan Central section authorities country of Edo State.
The project, inaugurated connected October 16, 2025, by the Chief of the Air Staff (CAS), Air Marshal Hasan Bala Abubakar, aimed to heighten entree to cleanable h2o for residents.
The CAS, represented by the Chief of Civil-Military Relations, Air Vice Marshal Ibikunle Daramola, reaffirmed the NAF’s resoluteness to deepen its transportation with communities done development-oriented projects.
In a connection by the NAF Spokesman, Air Cdre Ehimen Ejodame, CAS Abubaker explained that the inaugural formed portion of the Chief of the Air Staff’s Special Intervention and Quick Impact Projects (QIPs), designed to foster trust, cooperation, and communal knowing betwixt the subject and the civilian populace.
According to the Air Chief, “civil-military relations stay captious to nationalist stability, arsenic they beforehand collaboration betwixt the equipped forces and section communities portion discouraging activities that endanger bid and unity.”
He further noted that the “upgrade of the Directorate of Civil-Military Relations to a afloat Branch successful May 2024 demonstrates the NAF’s evolving relation successful humanitarian affairs, sex advocacy, and grievance redress for some unit and civilians.”
The CAS commended Air Vice Marshal Pius Oguega Oahimire, an indigene of Ohe community, for identifying a task that straight addresses the people’s needs.
He urged residents to instrumentality ownership of the installation and support it for semipermanent use, portion assuring them of the NAF’s continued concern successful promoting bid and information crossed the state.
In his remarks, AVM Oahimire, the Project Coordinator and Honouree, expressed gratitude to the Chief of the Air Staff for the honour of executing a task successful his assemblage nether the NAF’s QIP.
He stated that entree to cleanable h2o is indispensable to beingness and development, adding that the motion reflects the NAF’s knowing that nationalist information and assemblage payment are inseparable.
He encouraged the radical of Ohe to support and prolong the task arsenic a bequest for aboriginal generations.
In his remarks, the politician of Edo State, Monday Okpebholo, commended the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) for its committedness to assemblage improvement and societal interaction projects.
Governor Okpebholo, represented by his Chief of Staff, Alhaji Gani Audu, lauded the NAF for extending its developmental initiatives beyond its operational responsibilities, describing the task arsenic a existent reflection of the Service’s committedness to the payment of Nigerians. He noted that the inaugural aligns with his administration’s grassroots improvement agenda, aimed astatine promoting sustainable maturation and improving the prime of beingness crossed Edo State.
The politician besides praised Air Marshal Abubakar for his enactment imaginativeness successful strengthening civil-military relations done impactful humanitarian programmes.
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