Murder of 4 soldiers: Military arrests 3 Niger Delta Avengers
The Joint Military Task force on Wednesday confirmed the arrest of
three of the sus-pected Niger Delta Avengers who allegedly killed four
soldiers during an ambush at Nembe, Bayelsa State.
Commander of the taskforce, Rear Adm Joseph Okojie, who confirmed
this in an inter-view with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Yenagoa,
said the military also recov-ered a cache of arms..
Okojie said that the raid which was aimed at apprehending the
masterminds of the at-tack on a military post at Nembe jetty, took place
on August 13.
He said Troops located and raided the suspects’ hideout in a camp at
Saraba creek in Okiama Community in Okigbene in the Southern Ijaw Local
Government Area of Bayelsa, where several items were recovered.
He said after series of coordinated patrols, the troops on August 22, engaged the crimi-nals in a shoot-out at about 2 pm.
The commander explained that some of the militants were believed to
have been killed while three suspected militants were arrested.
He said the troops also recovered arms, ammunition and the gun boat that was carted away from the Nembe attack of August 8.
The taskforce commander said that in the mop-up operation on the
militants’ camp at Epebu Creek also in Southern Ijaw Local Government
Area, troops recovered nine AK47 rifles, one FN magazine, one container
of gun powder and 1,145 rounds of 7.62mm ammunition.
He listed other recovered arms to include 2,485 rounds of 7.62mm ball
Cartons, 370 rounds of 7.62mm and 1,356 rounds x7.62mm NATO ammunition.
Okojie noted that the joint task force conducted the operation professionally without any collateral damage.
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