The Nigerian Air Force, Thursday, vowed to flush criminal elements from Mammy Markets in its barracks.
The Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Sadiq Abubakar, gave the
assurance while inaugurating a modern Mammy Market facility at Sam
Ethnan Base in ikeja, Lagos.
Abubakar, who was represented by the Air Officer Commanding,
Logistics Command, Air Vice Marshal Ibrahim Yahaya, said there would be
no more room for criminal elements in the facility across the country.
According to him, “There will be no more room for criminal elements
to be haboured as the facility is designed to professional standards
with adequate provisions to cater for all our social needs.
“It is no secret that we live in perilous times with several challenges.
“The impact of global socio-economic challenges on our daily lives
further includes domestic stress rising from demand and supply of our
daily needs.”
“It is against this backdrop that the Nigerian Air force (NAF)
Properties Company Ltd. embarked on aggresive project to provide better
mammy market facilities in NAF bases around the country,” he said.
Abubakar added that personnel and the NAF immediate friends would be
given prime priority to acquire and operate the new mammy market
facilities.
Earlier, the Managing Director, NAF Properties Limited, Air Commodore
Musa Tanko, said that the facility would provide services and support
to personnel, families and members of its host community in Lagos.
“Its a truism that welfare is a morale booster to personnel. This I
believe underlies the infrastructural development drive of this present
administration.
“Consequently, one of the key drivers of the CAS in achieving his
vision is to reinforce a culture of self reliance and prudent management
of resources.
“NAF Properties Limited keyed into the vision of the CAS by desiring
to construct about 400 locked up shops with modern market facilities to
serve NAF personnel in Lagos and its host community,” he said.
“It is therefore no gain saying that the construction of the market
is in line with the current administration’s highly laudable efforts to
improve personnel’s welfare and quality infrastructural development of
its personnel,” he remarked.