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Troops of the Nigerian Army 2 Division/Sector 3 Operation FANSAN YAMA person successfully rescued 21 kidnapped victims successful Kwara and Kogi States.
Lt.-Col. Polcarp Okoye, Acting Deputy Director, Army Public Relations, 2 Division Nigerian Army, disclosed this successful a connection made disposable to newsmen successful Ibadan connected Saturday.
Okoye said the troops person sustained efforts to destruct bandits and different transgression elements operating successful Kwara and neighbouring states.
He said that the coordinated operations by troops of 12 Brigade Lokoja and 22 Armoured Brigade Ilorin led to the rescue of the kidnapped persons connected Friday.
According to Okoye, the victims stated that they were abducted from antithetic locations crossed Kwara and Kogi States.
He said the bandits were forced to merchandise their captives arsenic a effect of the troops’ intensified violative against them, noting that immoderate of the victims person been with the kidnappers for implicit 4 months.
“The General Officer Commanding (GOC) 2 Division, Nigerian Army (NA), and Commander Sector 3 Operation FANSAN YAMA, Major General CR Nnebeife, who has been coordinating the operations, ensured they were provided with indispensable archetypal assistance and different alleviation items to assistance them successful recovering from the torture they had gone done successful the hands of their abductors.
“Major General Nnebeife further sympathised with the victims, reassuring them that the part remained committed to sustaining the ongoing onslaught against each transgression elements,” helium said.
Nnebeife assured the nationalist that determination would beryllium nary hiding spot for bandits and different criminals wrong the division’s Area of Responsibility (AOR).
Okoye said that the rescued victims person been swiftly evacuated to a subject aesculapian installation for aesculapian attention.
He said that astir of them were physically anemic and could not locomotion unaided owed to utmost exhaustion.
Okoye, however, said the rescued victims were responding to attraction and would beryllium reunited with their families upon afloat recovery.
The GOC further appreciated the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) for its continuous aerial enactment passim the operations and besides thanked different information agencies for the synergy successful tackling the myriad of information challenges successful the areas of operations.
The GOC commended the efforts of the troops and directed the Brigades to support the tempo of the operations towards restoring bid and information crossed Kwara, Kogi, and adjoining states wrong the 2 Division AOR. (NAN)
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