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Soldiers Invade Ugborodo, Kill One Suspected Sea Pirate

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A combined team of military personnel on Sunday invaded the troubled oil-rich Ugborodo community in Escravos, Warri South-West Council Area of Delta.

The soldiers were said to have stormed the community in an operation that flushed out all the illegal oil thieves, armed youths and sea pirates.

In an ensuing confrontation, one unidentified youth suspected to be a sea pirate was shot in a gun duel that lasted several hours.

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The operation started first from the Madangho and Ajudiabo axis to Ogidigben where they encountered serious opposition on Saturday.

The soldiers were said to have extended their operation to the Ode-Ugborodo axis where the alleged head of the illegal bunkerer and his gang where overwhelmed by the superior fire power of the military and therefore allegedly fled into the bush and the soldiers took over the community.

Speaking to newsmen on the operation, former vice-Chairman of Ugborodo Community Trust, Mr. Isaac Botosan said they welcome the operation to rid the community of those he called miscreants, non-indigenes, oil thieves and armed youths even as he appealed to the Federal Government to keep the military men on ground until the entire Ugborodo is secured for normal habitation and genuine business.

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“The military men should be stationed at Ugborodo to restore sanity until further notice. The head of the oil thieves, Mr. Omadeli and his gang has already fled. The Whole of Ugborodo is now free of the miscreants and their nuisance value. Most of these youths are hired hoodlums from other community outside Ugborodo.

“In fact the one that was killed in the shootout is said to be from Ilaje axis. They were brought in to cause maximum insecurity in Ugborodo community through their illegal business and other social vices. I want the military men to remain at Ugborodo until total peace and sanity isrestored”, Botosan stated.

“Some youths were said to have attacked the boat conveying the Ologbotsere of Warri kingdom to Ugborodo on Saturday evening injuring some persons until they were over powered by the security escort team that paved way for the easy landing of the chief”.

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It would be recalled that a faction of the Ugborodo youths at Escravos have pronounced themselves to be outside the domain and authority of the Itsekiri monarch recently just as Ugborodo elders and respected indigenes have denounce the youths for taking their exuberance too far and beyond acceptable limits.

Story contributed by Emma Arubi

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