JTF arrests notorious militant
•Why I blew up oil facilities –Gen Cairo
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Sun News Publishing The Joint Military Task Force (JTF) Operation Pulo Shield, has recorded a major victory in the fight against pipeline vandalisation and destruction of oil facilities with the arrest of a notorious militant, Seiyefa Gbereke a.k.a General Cairo.
25 year-old Cairo from Bolo Orua in Sagbama Local Government Area, Bayelsa State, was said to have taken over Mammy Water’ gang when he was killed by JTF following the death of five JTF men .
JTF Intelligence sources who have been on the trail of General Cairo said he has been responsible for the various bombing of oil facilities in Bayelsa axis and criminal activities along the water ways. An impeccable source, who witnessed his arrest said he was tricked to come to Yenagoa from his base in Warri. According to the source, unknown to him his cover has been blown open that he was the wanted General Cairo.
However when he got to Agudama, close to the law school, he decided to change his mind of meeting with JTF and attempted to escape. Eye-witness account said the officer who led the JTF team followed him in hot pursuit and jumped into the swamp to escape.
The media coordinator of the JTF, Lt. Col Onyema Nwachukwu while parading General Cairo at the JTF headquarters said after his arrest, JTF Commander, Major- General Johnson Ochoga and Intelligence unit interrogated him.
Nwachukwu stated that General Ciaro had made useful statement to the JTF on his nefarious activities, which have threatened the security of the region. He said: “You are not unaware that General Ciaro has been the kingpin of a notorious gang that has been perpetrating dangerous activities, destruction of pipelines, oil well heads in the Niger Delta region. We have been on his trail tracking him for the past five months.
“On Thursday he was arrested by our operatives and brought to the JTF headquarters. He was interrogated by the JTF commander and the Intelligence operative of the JTF. He has made useful statement regarding his nefarious activities. He has confessed to us, willingly, voluntarily that he led a group of eight men to destroy Agip manifold flow station at Azagebne, and at Biseni close to Taylor Creek.
In an interview General Cairo, who admitted confessing to JTF, said he decided to engage in blowing up of oil facilities because the federal government refused to recognise some of them who submitted arms after the first and second phase of the amnesty programme. He revealed that he manufactures all the bombs they used in blowing up the oil facilities, adding that he learnt how to manufacture bombs during the militancy period.
“I have made some confessions to the JTF about all the oil facilities we destroyed. After the first and second phase amnesty, we submitted 25,000 weapons since 2011 and we have not been accommodated in the amnesty programme. So we decided to organise ourselves and blow up some pipelines.
“We did not participate in the first amnesty process because we were afraid. But after the first and second phase, the government encouraged us to submit our guns and we did. We have had peaceful protests at the East- West road, Lokoja road even we petitioned the coordinator of the amnesty process, Mr. Kingsley Kuku but nobody listened to us” JTF sources said they are following the trail of his gang and would soon catch up with all of them.
source: Sun news
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