Sea pirates on Sunday killed no fewer than four persons while also abducting another six in a move that indicated that the security situation in the South-South has further deteriorated.
Africa Today News, New York gathered that among the victims were oil workers working for the Nigeria Agip Oil Company (NAOC) and a personnel of the Nigeria Civil Defence and Security Corps (NCDSC).
It was reported that the sea-pirates in separate operations ambushed their victims along the Okoroma and Ogbokiri/ Akassa waterways in Nembe and Brass Local Government Areas of Bayelsa State respectively.
Further findings gathered indicated that the six oil workers kidnapped at Ogbokiri-Akassa were carrying out some maintenance work close to their platform when sea-pirates swooped on them and whisked them away.
‘The Agip oil workers and their security personnel were attacked at about 6am on Sunday while working close to a Manifold in Bayelsa. There was no security personnel with them when they incident happened,’ a source said.
The spokesman of the NSCDC, Bayelsa command, ASC1 Ogbere Solomon who confirmed the killing of that personnel of the command died in the ambush disclosed that two of its men who were missing have been found and are currently receiving treatment at the Federal Medical Centre in Yenagoa, the State capital.
‘Yes, our officers were ambushed and attacked by some unknown pirates while on their lawful duty of providing protection to some Agip oil workers close to Obama manifold in Okoroma community of Nembe Local Government. One personnel was killed while the other two that were missing have been found and are responding to treatment.’
The youth president of the Okoroma Clan, Mr Tarinyu Joseph who spoke on the incident disclosed that the people of the community have mobilized and recovered the corpses of those killed and have taken those injured to the hospital.
He disclosed that the search party of divers are still combing the creeks in search of the driver of the boat.
The state government had recently banned the use of speed boats with 200 horse power engine along the waterways and imposed a curfew on movements on the waterways from 7pm to 6am as part of measures to curb the increasing wave of insecurity.
AFRICA TODAY NEWS, NEW YORK