Pipeline Bombing: Soldiers Invade Niger-Delta Community Looking for Ex-Militant Leader
Security
operatives have invaded a riverine community in search of ex-militant
leaders accused of bombing pipelines and sabotaging the activities of
the federal government.
It was chaos in the riverine Bolowoh community in Ondo State as
security operatives hunting for the militants who bombed oil pipelines
in Delta State have invaded the area looking for the former commander of
the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, MEND, Bibopre
Ajube, aka Shoot-At-Sight.
Ajube, a partner of former General Officer Commanding, GOC, of
MEND, Government Ekpemupolo, alias Tompolo has been fingered in the
recent bombing of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation oil pipelines
and the security operatives are doing all possible to nab him.
However, the community members where the soldiers invaded have complained of manhandling.
A non-governmental organisation, the Ijaw People Development
Initiative, IPDI, has cried out yesterday to the international community
that the Ijaw nation was under military siege. The organisation
believes the government wants to make the Ijaw people a scapegoat for
all the problems happening in Nigeria.
A former Commander of MEND, Victor Ebikabowei Ben, alias ‘General’
Boyloaf, has dismissed the recent statement by the JTF, in the Niger
Delta that it would hold community leaders responsible for attacks by
militants on oil facilities in their areas.
Boyloaf, in an interview with Vanguard, said, “Truth is, the
JTF cannot hold any community leader responsible for any attack that has
taken place in the past or in the future, and they know it, because
the community leaders are not empowered to secure or watch over the
pipelines.”
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