SOLDIERS swooped on Kurutie (Little London), another
community in Gbaramatu kingdom, Warri South-West Local Government Area, Delta
State, in six gunboats at about 4.30 am, today (Monday) , hunting for members
of the Niger Delta Avengers. 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......
“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,” an informant told
Vanguard on phone at abot 5.30am.
Tompolo has repeatedly denied having any link with the Niger
Delta Avengers, but the military seemed to disbelieve him , and were chasing
him. It was gathered that 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. Ijaw leader, Chief Godspower Gbenekama, who
spoke to Vanguard at about 6.00 am, confirmed the siege to Kurutie. He said
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.
VANGUARD
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