Rescued pupils and teachers abducted from schools in Oriire, Oyo State, after regaining their freedom following a 56-day captivity. Photo: X/@aonanuga1956
A former Assistant Director of the Department of State Services, Dennis Amachree, has waded into the conflicting accounts of how the Oyo schoolchildren and their teachers regained their freedom from terrorists.
He said both the captives’ version and the Federal Government’s account of a rescue operation could be true at the same time.
One of the freed teachers had said the terrorists released them before security operatives arrived to take them home.
This differed from the government’s earlier position that the release followed a rescue operation involving arrests, with no prisoner exchange.
