By Kingsley Omonobi
Police officers comprising operatives on the Special Intervention Squad, SIS, and the Intelligence Response Team, IRT, have disclosed that they gave their all in joint coordination with the military and other security agencies to ensure the successful rescue of the 44 abducted pupils and teachers of Oriire schools because they saw the abductees as their own children.
One police personnel, Sergeant John Jerome Mbena, was killed during the rescue operation while several other police personnel sustained various degrees of injuries.
This is just as the Inspector-General of Police, Tunji Disu, has mourned a police officer who died during a joint security operation and commended the operatives involved for their bravery and success.
Speaking on Friday while receiving the personnel who took part in the rescue mission, the IG said an officer paid the supreme price while working alongside other security agencies to free the abducted children.
