General Christopher Musa, the Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), has disclosed that they have identified the mastermind responsible for the last week’s death of 17 troops in the Okuama community in the Ughelli South Local Government Area of Delta State.
Speaking before the House Committee on Defence Chairman, Hon. Babajimi Benson, as well as other committee members, the CDS claimed that the killers had fled the Okuama village and that they knew where they were hiding. He said that somewhere, some people are providing them with shelter.
According to the report by the Nigerian Tribune, he gave the assurance that the people who carried out the heinous crime will soon be apprehended and made to face the full wrath of the ⚖.
He said, “The situation is ongoing, it’s an ongoing operation but we won’t want to say much other than we already know the perpetrators. Already we have done it and they’ve run away. We have information where they’ve gone to hide, some people are giving them refuge, some people are giving them support.”
General Musa warned that anybody who has anything to do with the killers should desist from doing so, because during investigation, they will not spare those people who have been harbouring them.
Speaking further, he said that the days of impunity are over, and that the perpetrators of the act will not go Scott-free.
Meanwhile, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu had promised that the 17 soldiers whom he described as heroes will be given a befitting burial, and will also be decorated with national honour’s.
