Vanguard learnt that the suspects were arrested at Agbor-Obi and Sapele in Delta State by the JTF operatives who, acting on intelligence information, trailed them to their new locations
Coordinator of the Joint Media Campaign Centre (JMCC), JTF Headquarters, Effurun, Delta State, Lt. Colonel Rabe Abubakar who confirmed the arrest of the suspects said, “The armed robbers were the same people who engaged in oil bunkering, because the JTF has sealed that route, they have diverted to outright robbery, we will hunt them”.

Items recovered from the suspects, he disclosed, included one pump action gun, three locally made double barrel gun and five live cartridges.

According to him, “The JTF, Operation Restore Hope, since its inception, had the mandate of restoring peace and security in the Niger Delta region. The restoration and the maintenance of peace, especially within Bayelsa and Delta States have been successful, as could be seen in various arrests and retrievals of criminals and items stolen, respectively.  

''These criminals want to see that the region remains ungovernable to provide a fertile ground for them to implement their heinous criminal activities”.

“In line with the JTF’s alert nature to deter militants cum criminals’ plan, and in keeping with its priority of sanitising small towns and villages in the Niger Delta of arms and ammunition, five suspected armed robbers were arrested at Agbor Obi town, in Delta State and handed over to the Police at Ika South Local Government Area for further action”, he said.

He said that the other five suspects were arrested at the Sapele Motor Park, where they went to cause mayhem, but were arrested and handed over to the police in Sapele.

His words, “Similarly, a civil disturbance, which erupted at Sapele Motor Park amongst members of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW), was brought under control by the men of the JTF. 

Five of those miscreants who caused the trouble were also arrested and handed over to the Police at Sapele”, adding available information showed that “militants were equally responsible for the trouble at Sapele Motor Park so as to present the region as being far from peace”.

Lt Col Abubakar stated, however, that the Commander, JTF, Brigadier General Nanven Rimtip, has warned militant groups in the Niger Delta region to drop weapons or face the wrath of the task force, which was not prepared to compromise on its mandate from the Federal Government.

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