By Emma Amaize, Regional Editor, South –South, Egufe Yafugborhi, Perez Brisibe and Akpokona Omafuaire

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.

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.”

DaBullIT:
Even the person they said was negotiating for them said he does not know them


I know Buhari is not Clueless , It's a policy never to negotiate with terrorists , and those who wrote the law and the geneva convention knew all too well , give a mice a cheese , it's going to want a glass of milk

Islie:

* Navy arrests 3 suspects, Army seizes 2

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/06/breaking-despite-ceasefire-soldiers-invade-ijaw-community/

kozmokaz:


any attack on the militants is an attack in the south !!

kozmokaz ::::2016

modified:

it really baffles me when some niggurs come online and be making mouth that Lagos state gat oil ..ondo state gat oil ...yet just the bombing if few pipelines and oil wells in delta state alone halved Nigeria oil out put!!

imagine what will happen if same bombings is replicated in Rivers state , abia state. IMO state akwa ibom and cross river ... ...

Nigeria govt can lie fr Africa !

kozmokaz:


any attack on the militants is an attack in the south !!

kozmokaz ::::2016

modified:

it really baffles me when some niggurs come online and be making mouth that Lagos state gat oil ..ondo state gat oil ...yet just the bombing if few pipelines and oil wells in delta state alone halved Nigeria oil out put!!

imagine what will happen if same bombings is replicated in Rivers state , abia state. IMO state akwa ibom and cross river ... ...

Nigeria govt can lie fr Africa !

Akpan107:
We will not surrender our crude oil to the false song of one Nigeria.

IllegalMoney:


They will come back empty handed again, without catching even a single fly