Military vows to arrest soldiers’ killers
The Joint Military Force deployed to the Niger Delta has vowed to apprehend the militants who attacked its base and killed the three soldiers at Nembe jetty on Monday.
This is contained in a statement by Lt.-Cdr. Abdulrashid Ahmed, Acting spokesman of Operation Delta Safe, in Yenagoa on Tuesday.
Ahmed said that the troops had been reinforced to fish out the militants.
“Some suspected gunmen believed to be militants at about 10 a.m. on Aug. 8, 2016 attacked 343 Artillery Regiment, a detachment of Operation DELTA SAFE deployed at Nembe Jetty in Bayelsa State. During the incidence, three soldiers lost their lives.
“The Commander of Operation Delta Safe, Rear Admiral Joseph Okojie, has consequently deployed reinforcement team to apprehend the perpetrators of this heinous crime,” he said.
Ahmed quoted the commander of the joint force as warning that henceforth, Operation Delta Safe would go on offensive to fish out all criminals in the region.
He attributed the attack by militants to the ongoing operations of the troop to flush out all forms of criminality, especially pipeline vandalism and destruction of illegal refinery within the region.
Ahmed, however, assure law abiding public, particularly the Nembe community that its operation in the area was to ensure conducive and safe waterways for legitimate businesses in the Niger Delta region.
Meanwhile residents in Nembe are leaving the area for fear of reprisal by the military following the attack.
Mrs Marry Benjamin, who hails from Nembe, described that attack in which the militants carted away a military gunboat and a cache of arms and ammunition as worrisome.
She recalled that militants had attacked the military post in November 2015 and killed four soldiers.
“The killing of the soldiers has triggered panic in Nembe area; our people have started moving out in fear of military reprisal.
“We can no longer stay in the area because shootings are ongoing here and there,” Benjamin said.
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NIGERIA WE HAIL THEE!!!
“A CAUTION FOR NIGERIA” mainly these Niger Delta agitators. The so-called Niger Delta Scavengers and all their putrid selfish greedy stupid backers and politicians who sponsor them. I doubt it if all these gullible brain-washed and mentally
cheated by Mother Nature riding about in speed boats blowing up pipelines can afford one single decent meal per day. They are being funded by these old Deltan VULTURES who feed on the carcasses of their brothers and sisters. They are the people who will bear the dire consequences, should there be any civil war. A group of criminals sponsored and funded by these unscrupulous politicians, cannot be stronger, more equipped more prepared more determined more willing than a nation´s military setup.
“South Sudan is “poised on the brink of an abyss” UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon told the Security Council on Thursday”.
“Ban has called for an arms embargo and sanctions to be imposed on those who fail to observe the peace
agreement in South Sudan, but the council has yet to endorse his call”.
“In 2015, the UN and the US imposed sanctions on the main players in the conflict, with the State Department reiterating its warning that “those taking actions threatening the peace, security, or stability of South Sudan… may be subject to sanctions under UN Security Council Resolution 2206 (2015).”
The South Sudanese are sitting on trillions cubic of crude oil too, what have they achieved after obtaining break away? Nothing but inter-tribal wars and confusion. This is exactly what is going to happen to SS and SE. These regions are not only Ijaws and Igbos, rather many other tribes and sub-tribes who will start claiming their own rights after breaking away therefore, they will never know peace. Dialogue remains the wisest, the safest and the cheapest way of solving grievances no matter how long it takes. You see, God feeds on Satan and when Satan vanishes, God will die of hunger.
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