The Commanding Officer of the 21 Battalion, Nigerian Army, Godiya Monde, has said the gunmen who abducted four persons from an examination centre in Kogi State have made contact, and troops are working to trace their location.
He said troops had also blocked all suspected crossing points to prevent the abductors from moving the victims further into the forest.
Monde disclosed this on Thursday while addressing newsmen at the scene of the attack in Olowa, a community in the Dekina Local Government Area of the state.
He said, “They’ve made some calls so far. We are tracking them to see where they are. I’m assuring you, we’re going to rescue those children.”
The officer put the number of abductees at four, comprising two students, the school principal and a supervisor who was on ground for the National Examination Council examination.
