• DSS, military close in on kidnappers
Emmanuel Addeh in Abuja
Security agencies have recorded a major breakthrough in efforts to rescue the 39 schoolchildren and seven teachers abducted in Oriire Local Government Area of Oyo State, with intelligence operatives identifying and tracing associates of the kidnappers across different parts of the country.
The development, THISDAY was told, has unsettled the terrorists and increased prospects for the victims’ release, with the kidnappers softening their hard stance on the release of the schoolchildren and teachers.
The latest progress comes less than two weeks after security forces tightened the cordon around the abductors by blocking escape routes and surrounding their hideout in the National Park forest, where the victims are believed to be held.
