WARRI - NOTWITHSTANDING the two-week
ceasefire declared by the Federal
Government, last Monday, soldiers on
Wednesday morning, swooped on Tebijor,
also known as Okpelama, an Ijaw
community in Gbaramatu Kingdom, Warri
South-West Local Government Area, Delta
State, in five gunboats hunting for militants.
Operatives of the Nigeria Navy Ship, NNS
Delta on Tuesday arrested three persons
suspected to be pipeline bombers and oil
thieves.
These came as a new militant group, Niger-
Sea Commandos, NDSC, said it had broken
away from the Niger Delta Avengers, NDA.
Meanwhile, the Niger Delta Liberation Force,
NDLF, a non-operational militant group
founded by the late John Togo, has
slammed the Joint Niger Delta Liberation
Force, JNDLF, for using its name without
permission to announce plan by militants to
launch missiles and attack government
establishments.
File: Militants
Commander of the Commander, Nigerian
Navy Ship, NNS Delta, Commodore Raimi
Mohammed, confirmed to Vanguard on
phone that navy arrested three suspects
"I can confirm that the arrest was made,
but I maintain my earlier stance that I do
not want to attach group names to people.
We are up against oil assets destroyers, oil
thieves and other criminals in the
waterways. Therefore, it is true we have
made arrest of the three, but I am not at
the moment concerned about what group
people claim to belong. “
“We deal with the impact of their crimes
and through information they provide get
hold of their collaborators. Identity claim
could issue for another day, but there could
identity claims though," he said.
A villager, who spoke on the arrest, said:
“Three youths from Tebijor were unlawfully
arrested today (Tuesday) by Nigerian Navy.
The youths were coming from fetching
mangrove sticks to set a fishing trap when
they were apprehended by navy personnel
on patrol at Tebijor.”
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