Edo killings: NSCDC deploys special squads to hunt down killers of 8 operatives

By Omeiza Ajayi

ABUJA—The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, has launched a manhunt for the gunmen who ambushed and killed 8 of its operatives successful Okpella, Etsako East Local Government Area of Edo State.

Commandant General of the Corps, Prof. Ahmed Audi, ordered the contiguous deployment of Special Tactical Squads, including the Counter Terrorism Unit, CTU, Special Weapons and Tactics, SWAT, and Special Protection Units, to comb forests successful the country and rescue a kidnapped Chinese expatriate.

The tragic incidental occurred connected Friday, erstwhile NSCDC unit were ambushed portion protecting captious infrastructure astatine the BUA Cement Company successful Okpella.

Eyewitnesses said the officers engaged the attackers successful a fierce three-hour weapon battle, managing to rescue 4 expatriates earlier 8 of the operatives were fatally gunned down.

In a connection by the Corps’ National Public Relations Officer, Afolabi Babawale, the Commandant General praised the fallen operatives for their “resilience, diligence, and dedication,” noting that they paid the ultimate terms successful the enactment of duty.

Audi directed that the peculiar cognition beryllium led by commandant of the CG’s Special Intelligence Squad, Dandaura Appollos, with a wide mandate to apprehension the killers, rescue the abducted expatriate, and reconstruct information successful the area.

He appealed to members of the nationalist to supply utile accusation that could assistance successful tracking down the perpetrators.

He further assured that information astir the BUA Cement Company had been strengthened to support some expatriate and indigenous workers, arsenic good arsenic the company’s captious assets.

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