The husband of a captured school principal, Mrs. Rachael Alamu, wept openly on Saturday as he made a passionate plea to Oyo State Governor Seyi Makinde to ramp up operations aimed at freeing his spouse and other kidnap victims within the state.
The heart-wrenching moment unfolded during the governor’s official assessment visit to Oriire Local Government Area, where relatives of the missing victims assembled to press for urgent intervention from the state administration.
The distraught man, whose wife, Alamu Folawe, heads the Community Grammar School in Esiele, begged Makinde to guarantee that the search-and-rescue teams would not halt or stall their tracking activities.
Overwhelmed by grief, he shared that his wife’s continued detention has brought immense agony to the family, a pain worsened by emerging reports that the hostages are being coerced into filming disturbing proof-of-life footage by their captors.
While recognizing the measures already deployed by the governor, he implored him to keep pushing forward until every single missing resident is safely reunited with their family.
This public outcry gains traction on the heels of a newly surfaced distress video recorded by Mrs. Alamu Folawe from the kidnappers’ camp.
In the recording, the principal appealed directly to President Bola Tinubu and Governor Makinde, urging the two leaders to explore negotiations and dialogue to guarantee their safe release.
Mrs. Alamu and several other individuals were ambushed and dragged away by heavily armed bandits along the Ogbomoso corridor of Oyo State a few days ago, an incident that has triggered widespread condemnation and intense demands for aggressive security enforcement.
Anxious family members and community leaders have additionally reached out to the presidency, calling on Bola Tinubu to deploy federal reinforcement to back up local search efforts.
While top security agencies have withheld specific operational details regarding tactical locations to safeguard the mission, intelligence teams are reportedly working to pinpoint the exact hideout of the criminal gang.
The brazen ambush further highlights the expanding security vulnerabilities across rural settlements in Oyo State, which have faced recurring patterns of criminal raids and targeted abductions.
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