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Residents Flee Bayelsa Community

Posted by Elvis on April 24, 2009 at 8:56pm
The people of Nembe, Nembe Local Government Area of Bayelsa have been fleeing from the area following the killing of two naval ratings and the abduction of four others by militants.The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the people were relocatingfrom Nembe due to fears about retaliatory attacks by soldiers deployed by the Military Joint Taskforce (JTF) in the Niger Delta to the area to fish out those behind the act.A military source told NAN that militants often used the Nembe creeks as a launch pad for their attacks.The source said that the authorities had commenced the deployment of troops to the Nembe creeks to apprehend the three suspected militant leaders responsible for the killing and abduction.However, the JTFís Spokesman, Col. Rabe Abubakar, advised law-abiding citizens not be afraid because of the development, saying that the soldiers were only deployed to the area to maintain law and order.Abubakar on Monday confirmed that there were two attacks at Tebidaba flow station, belonging to the Nigeria Agip Oil Company (NAOC), and at the Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) facility in the Nembe creeks.He, however, said that the attacks were allegedly carried out by three militants, Ogunbus, Kitikata in Bayelsa and Fara Dagogo in Rivers.
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