The article recounts that thirty prospective corps members left Oyo for the East, and twenty were abducted near Owerri on the Owerri-Onitsha road at Umunoha, while ten escaped. It states that local people who witnessed the abduction blocked the road to force a chase due to what it describes as the apathy of security agencies. According to the piece, the police later announced that their drones had located the hostages and their abductors, but said they could not immediately extract the hostages because the area was mined. The writer argues that a nation that conscripts its graduates cannot lose them on a federal highway, allow an exchange of ransom, and call the aftermath a rescue.
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