MOVEMENT for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, MEND, yesterday,
said that it was not only four military men that were killed in the
March 2, gun fight between Joint Task Force, codenamed Operation Pulo
Shield, with militants in the creek of Bayelsa State, adding that
over 10 soldiers, including a Lieutenant Colonel, were killed.
It also said none of its men was killed in the encounter and
challenged the task force to produce the corpse of any of its fighters
that was killed.
JTF had, after the bloody fight, said that it killed Shedrack
Itokofuwei, an alleged sea pirate, who led the attack and killing of Lt
Col Malik and three naval ratings.
Meanwhile, the Police in Bayelsa State said they have recovered the
bodies of five policemen killed by unknown gunmen on the Nembe Waterway
on March 1.
Police Public Relations Officer, Mr. Eguavon Emokpai, said in
Yenagoa, yesterday, that the remains of the five cops had been
deposited at the Federal Medical Centre Mortuary in Yenagoa.
Emokpai said the policemen were shot at a marine police post along Nembe waterway by unknown gunmen.
MEND in a statement by its spokesperson, Jomo Gbomo, said:
“Unfortunately, we are again compelled to respond to the rambling of the
spokesperson for the JTF. We urge the public to discountenance the
propaganda of JTF, which attributes the attack on its convoy to pirates.
“Since when have pirates in the Niger Delta been known to travel in
such large numbers as admitted by the JTF, which for once is forced to
concede to the loss of a senior officer? “
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