Army Retracts Statement On Oil Workers’ Rescue

This comes 4⃣ days after the ambush and a day after Boko Haram released a 📹 video of 3⃣ of the abducted member of the oil exploration team.

A day after the incident, the Army said, the oil workers had been rescued.

However, the Director, Army Public Relations, Brigadier General Sani Usman, said the initial statement was regrettable.

He disclosed this in a fresh statement on Sunday, which revealed that 21 more bodies of those ambushed had been recovered.

Describing the ambush as “as unfortunate and highly regrettable”, Usman said his initial statement that all the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation workers abducted in the ambush had been rescued was wrong

UCJ, UNILORIN.