A former Chief of Defence Staff, Air Chief Marshal Oluseyi Petinrin.
A former Chief of Defence Staff, Air Chief Marshal Oluseyi Petinrin (retd.), has commended the Department of State Services for its role in securing the recent release of 46 teachers and pupils abducted in Oriire Local Government Area of Oyo State.
Petinrin, in a statement obtained in Osogbo on Monday, said the DSS played a strategic role in the operation but had received little public recognition despite its contribution to the victims’ safe release.
According to the retired military chief, while other security agencies were being praised for the successful operation, the intelligence efforts of the DSS, which he described as crucial to the outcome, had largely gone unnoticed.
“The ORIRE kidnap victims’ release was already being credited to the military until one of the released victims told the true story: they were released by the kidnappers, and no kinetic action was involved in that release.
