By Ayodele Oni
Major General Chinedu Ralph Nnebeife, the General Officer Commanding, 2 Mechanized Division, Ibadan, has revealed that one of the suspects, who was arrested in the course of locating the whereabouts of the kidnappers that abducted children and teachers in Oyo state, led them to their camps.
The General narrated that the suspect who was arrested by the Commissioner of Police, Oyo State, Abimbola Ayodeji Olugbenga, after intelligence surveillance pinned him down, was flown by helicopter to the bush and delivered to the waiting arms of security agents.
The army officer reiterated that security agencies worked together to rescue victims of the Orire school abductions in Oyo State, saying the arrest of the key suspect by the Commissioner of Police (CP) helped the operation.
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 Police Command CP 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 and fly him into the forest, where he provided valuable information that helped security forces locate the kidnappers’ camp.
He described the rescue as the result of close cooperation among different security agencies.
His words: “It came to the time to pick up one of the suspects 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 him, and we sent a helicopter there to bring the person to us into the bush. He gave us relevant information as to where their camps were.”
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