Nine employees of Octopus Clan Nigerian Limited and the Deck Oil Services have been kidnapped by unidentified gunmen along the Ilebiri Creek in the Southern Ijaw Area of Bayelsa State.
Sources in the security services said in Yenagoa on Sunday that the workers were abducted at about 2pm on Thursday by the yet to be identified gunmen, who are also suspected to be behind the killing of 12 policemen in Azuzuama on April 6.
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SaharaReporters gathered that the gunmen seized the oil workers to negotiate a reprieve from the JTF which launched a series of raids to smoke out the kidnappers from their known camps.
It would be recalled that following the massacre of the policemen, the kidnappers released one of the policemen that had been on the ill-fated boat attacked after allegedly collecting a ransom of N1 million. It is common practice for the security services to negotiate with the kidnappers, who are often known to them.
The kidnapped workers, all of them Nigerians, were on their way to work to repair leaks within Agip’s pipeline network in the Southern Ijaw Area of Bayelsa.
Five of the kidnapped workers are employees of Port Harcourt-based Octopus Clan Nigeria Limited while the remaining four work for Deck Oil Services.
The Police spokesman in Bayelsa Alex Akhigbe said that the Police was yet to get a report of the incident from the oil services firms.
Culled - Saharareporters
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