How military sacked Bayelsa community in search of Avengers

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Indigenes of the Shine-Shine people group in Nembe Council of Bayelsa State yesterday portrayed their stories of awfulness, tears and distress over the late military attack of their group looking for associated individuals with the activist gathering, Niger Delta Avengers (NDA).

In spite of the fact that the warriors were said not to have made any capture or found any associated part with the gathering, as indicated by occupants of the group, the mission left distress, tears and a crushed group behind, with scores of houses, holy places and schools burned to the ground.

An indigene of the group, Chief Dede Francis, who talked on telephone with our reporter, asserted that the episode, which happened on Monday, left the group abandoned with indigenes rushing to neighboring Ogbolomabiri in Nembe for security.


"We had a go at conversing with them, yet it was purposeless. Nightfall of terrorizing, they let us know that some associated individuals with the Niger Delta Avengers were pursued into our group. They asserted there were trades of gunfire with their work force by the presumed Avengers from the group."

Francis, notwithstanding, uncovered that after the flight of the attacking officers, the asserted associated individuals with the Niger Delta Avengers made an endeavor on the life of the group head, blaming him for offering them to the fighters.

In an announcement, the powers of the Joint Task Force code named Operation Delta Safe (ODS) affirmed that they went to the group looking for activists, however did not devastate the group as claimed.

A prior articulation dated November 8, 2016, on the exercises of troops in Bayelsa and marked by the Coordinator of its Joint Media Center, Lt. Col. Laolu Dawodu, expressed that the military troops in conjunction with possess Special Forces directed watches to Sand-sand angling camp in Bayelsa State and happened upon suspected aggressors who had re-gathered to revive a camp prior devastated.

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