Former Deputy Director of Defence Administration at the Defence Headquarters, Commodore Kunle Olawunmi, has stated that the operation carried out to bring back Nnamdi Kanu to Nigeria was poorly executed. He said that as a professional military officer, he carefully observed the process and concluded that it was badly handled.
According to a report by Punch on Sunday, November 2, 2025, Olawunmi said the security operatives who carried out the operation tried to copy what was done during the arrest of Henry Okah, leader of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND). He said, “I would say what they did to Kanu was a badly executed operation. It was poorly done. They just wanted to copy what we did to the leader of MEND (Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta), Henry Okah,”
However, Olawunmi said that unlike the operation carried out to arrest Okah, the one involving Kanu’s arrest was unprofessional. He said Kanu was captured in Kenya and brought to Abuja, where he was publicly paraded at the airport. He said that based on military standards, the officers who handled that mission should have been dismissed from service because of the poor manner in which the operation was carried out. View, More,
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