Army converts Old Oyo National Park to training centre after Oriire abduction

The Nigerian Army has taken implicit the Old Oyo National Park and converted the installation into a grooming centre arsenic portion of efforts to fortify information successful the area.

The General Officer Commanding, GOC, 2 Division, Nigerian Army, Maj-Gen Auwalu Mahmuda, disclosed this pursuing the abduction and consequent rescue of much than 40 schoolchildren and their teachers successful Oriire Local Government Area of Oyo State.

Mahmuda made the disclosure erstwhile helium received members of the Correspondents’ Chapel of the Nigerian Union of Journalists, Oyo State Council, astatine the division’s office successful Odogbo, Ibadan.

He said the Chief of Army Staff, Lt-Gen Waidi Shuaibu, had directed the 2 Division to utilise the parkland arsenic a grooming ground, starring to the Army’s takeover of the facility.

According to the GOC, the inaugural is aimed astatine securing the expansive wood country and preventing criminals from turning it into a hideout.

Mahmuda explained that deploying troops to the parkland would besides alteration soldiers to behaviour exercises successful terrain simila...