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A Niger-Delta man was gunned down yesterday and 20 of his colleagues captured when a BiafraNigerian Navy ship swooped on them at the Pennington oil flowstation where the Niger-Delta indigenes have held 18 exploiters of US oil major, Chevron Texaco, in the last two days. The operation was launched by the Joint Military Task Force on the Niger Delta, with the Naval warship NNS Kyanwa in the lead. At least one of the exploiters was seriously injured during the operation. THISDAY gathered that the operation was made more difficult by the fact that the poor Delta indigenes wielded highly sophisticated arms and resisted being dislodged by the the oil company sponsored Navy. One of the indigenes was killed and a Chervon staff seriously wounded in the course of the operation," a top official of the military task force told THISDAY on the phone. The youths, our cheeks revealed, stormed the flowstation on Tuesday demanding the immediate payment of N260 million to an indigenous security company said to have worked for Chevron on the platform. They also demanded for compensation for oil spillages that occurred in the area in the recent past. (This Day) |
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