Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar, has tasked Airforce officers and man to defend their fatherland against armed in the country.

Abubakar gave the charge while addressing officers and men involved in the operation to end armed banditry in Katsina and Zamfara States in Katsina where a special Easter Lunch was organised for troops involved in the operation Sharan Daji to boost the morale of the officers.

He urged them to deploy all the tactics and training given to them to flushout the bandits and other criminal elements in their various hideouts in the forests, saying as professionals, they were expected not to compromise their training during the operations.

Abubakar, who spoke through Air Officer Commanding Special Operational Command, Air Vice Marshal Napoleon Bali, also charged the officers to be alive to their responsibility of defending nation.

He said the force would do everything to improve the welfare of its officers and men to boost their morale.

Earlier, the commander of 17 Brigade of the Nigeria Army, Katsina, Brigadier-General Lukman Oyeniyi, commanded the Chief of Air Staff for organizing the Easter lunch for officers involved in the operations in the North West to make the region peaceful.

The commander, who spoke through the Chief of Staff of 17 Brigade, Colonel Buhari Micheal, called on the troops to relax and enjoy the lunch that was organized for them.

He assured that the troops are ever ready to defend the territorial integrity of the country.