How Ododo’s Matching Order, Inter-agency Cooperation Facilitated Rescue Of Kidnapped Victims – Fanwo
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LAGOS – The Kogi State Commissioner for information and Communications, Kingsley Fanwo, has said that the marching order given by Governor Usman Ododo and inter-agency cooperation are responsible for the prompt rescue of the four kidnapped victims in Dekina local government area of the state.
Recall that security operatives on Thursday rescued four people kidnapped during a recent attack on an unauthorised NECO examination centre in Olowa, Dekina local government area of the state.
Speaking in an interview, Fanwo explained how the commitment of the governor and the determination of the security operatives in collaboration with local hunters and vigilantes led to the success story.
He said, “The principal decided to take a few students who could afford to pay for miracle centres to a school that’s more or less in the forest to write the exams there.
“When they were kidnapped, the governor of the state immediately summoned the state security advisor and mandated him to immediately coordinate security efforts to ensure their immediate rescue and within hours, the army, the police, the DSS, the civil defense, the vigilante, the local hunters; we have hundreds of them there, saturated the place.
“We were able to deploy technology to track the movement of those people and then all their exit points where they usually take their victims through were blocked. We cut off their logistics. I won’t explain the details. There was a tremendous pressure on them.”
According to the Commissioner, the entire forest was saturated with security operatives, saying that they had no choice than to quickly abandon the victims because of the hot pursuit, since they knew that would lead to their damage.