LEADERSHIP
Uneasy calm pervaded the coastal districts of the Bayelsa and Delta states yesterday as stern-looking armed soldiers combed the creeks of the two states in search of the killers of 16 soldiers of the Nigerian Army suspected to have been murdered by youths of Okuama community in Ughelli South local government area of Delta State on Thursday.
Apparently to underscore the seriousness of the assignment, fresh troops have been deployed in the areas, especially the troubled scenes and other adjoining Ijaw and Urhobo communities in the two neighbouring states.
Business and other normal life’d activities were paralysed in the areas under surveillance by the troops.
Impeccable security sources told LEADERSHIP that six gunboats were also deployed in the exercise.
The gunboats were stationed at the jetty of Okuama community, obviously to tame the recalcitrant youths.
Already, LEADERSHIP gathered that military authorities have penciled down the names of the hoodlums responsible for the dastardly act for arrest.
LEADERSHIP recalls that 16 soldiers, including the commanding officer of 181 Amphibious Battalion, Bomadi, a Lt. Col, two army majors, an Army Captain and 12 other personnel, who were on peacekeeping mission in Okuama community were ambushed killed in yet unclear circumstances, on Thursday.
The headless corpses of 14 of the fallen soldiers were recovered from the waters of Okuama community on Saturday evening.
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