Major General Chinedu Ralph Nnebeife has revealed how security agencies worked together to rescue victims of the Orire school abductions in Oyo State, saying the arrest of a key suspect by the Commissioner of Police (CP) helped the operation.
In a video shared by Channels TV, speaking during the official handover of the rescued victims, Nnebeife said the military tracked the kidnappers for more than a month in a complex operation aimed at identifying those behind the attack, destroying their network and cutting off their supplies.
He disclosed that security forces extended the operation beyond Oyo State to capture members of the kidnapping gang and refused to end the mission until the terrorists operating in the area had been dismantled.
Nnebeife praised the Oyo State Commissioner of Police for providing critical support throughout the mission. He said the police boss regularly sent food to troops in the forest and also helped arrest a suspect after receiving intelligence from the military.
The senior military officer explained that after the suspect was arrested, a helicopter was dispatched to pick the person up and fly them into the forest, where they provided valuable information that helped security forces locate the kidnappers’ camps.
He described the rescue as the result of close cooperation among different security agencies.
In his words, “It came to time to pick up one of the suspect, the CP helped us to arrest. We were following them up and then we called the CP, there’s this person going to this place, and the CP immediately arrested them, and we sent a helicopter there to bring the person to us into the bush who gave us relevant information as to where their camps were…See More
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