Soldiers in the creeks
According to a report on Vanguard, Nigerian military troops this
morning at about 4.30am, invaded on Kurutie (aka Little London), another
community in Gbaramatu kingdom, Warri South-West Local Government Area,
Delta State, in six gunboats hunting for members of the Niger Delta
Avengers.
It was gathered that the residents were asleep when they came, but
many scampered into the bush when heard the sound of the gunboats. The
soldiers, who quickly cordoned the community, embarked on a house to
house search.
An informant disclosed to Vanguard on phone at about 5.30am and said, "I
am looking at the soldiers from a hideout in the bush, they are going
from house to house. We know their tactics, so we ran away when they
landed this morning at the jetty in the town, belonging to Tompolo’s
father."
Popular militant warlord, Tompolo's father was not in Kurutie when
soldiers stormed the town this morning, but an over 70-year-old man,
simply identified as Do Good Ikekama, is among the citizens allegedly
molested and forced to take the soldiers around some homes.
Chief Godspower Gbenekama, an Ijaw leader, who spoke to Vanguard at
about 6.00am, confirmed the siege to Kurutie, adding that despite the
appeal by the Gbaramatu monarch, HRM Oboro Gbaraun II, to the
Coordinator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme, Brigadier General
Paul Boroh (retd) that the soldiers should be professional in their
duties, they were still harassing people.
However, the soldiers, according to reports, left the community at about 6.30am.
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