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Three weeks after the kidnap of four expatriate staff of an oil servicing company working for the Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC), security operatives have arrested the Secretary General of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) on the streets of Warri.
Three weeks after the kidnap of four expatriate staff of an oil servicing company working for the Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC), security operatives have arrested the Secretary General of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) on the streets of Warri.
The arrest of the MEND Secretary was made possible by the arrest of some Ijaw Youth leaders by men of State Security Service (SSS) who confessed him after interrogation.
THISDAY gathered that as soon as intelligence reports confirmed that the abducted men are been held in Okerenkoko community in Warri, Delta State, Security operative swung into action by tailing the known leaders of the youths in the area.
The action of the security agents caught the leadership of the Okerenkoko based Federated Niger Delta Ijaw Communities (FNDIC) unaware as they began to flee soon after the arrest of their leader who was a former Aide Of Governor James Ibori.
The FDNIC in an unsigned statement in the name of its President, Chief Bello Oboko and Director of Mobilization, Chief Government Ekpemupolo said it has resolved to work with the Federal Government to find the kidnappers following appeals from the Presidency.
THISDAY gathered from impeccable security sources that they would have invaded the community where the expatriates are being held, but for the possibility of their being killed in the cross fire between security operatives in the youths.
Confirming the arrest of the MEND secretary in a telephone conversation, the Delta State Director of the SSS Mr. Adebayo Babalola said the man who he refused to name has been taken to the head office of the Service in Asaba for further interrogation.