Armed men on Friday night attacked Zuzama Community of Southern Ijaw
Local Government Area of Bayelsa state, shooting dead thirteen Police
officers.
Three others including a Police Sergeant escaped being killed as they dived into the River.
The incident, which occurred at between 6 and 7pm, happened few meters away from the Azuzama town.
The Policemen, according to security sources, were deployed on escort
duty from the State Government House and the State Police Headquarters
to provide security during the burial ceremony of the mother to a former
Militant Leader, Kile Selky Torughedi known along the waterways and
creeks of the state as Young Shall Grow.
Kile Selky Torughedi, who was 24 hours before the attack appointed
the Senior Special Adviser on Marine Waterways Security, was in the
convoy of boats before the sad end of the Policemen.
While many expressed fear that the Movement for the Emancipation of
the Niger Delta (MEND) may have been responsible for the attack,
LEADERSHIP gathered that the aggrieved followers of the Ex-militant
leader were responsible.
The ex militant leader it was further learnt was having problems with
his “boys” who accused him of abandoning them. He was said to have
relocated to Abuja after embracing the Federal Government amnesty
leaving behind his former confederates.
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