By Azu Akanwa
The Ijaw Monitoring Group (IMG) has described JTF operation in Ayakoromo and its environ as lawless and outright terrorism against innocent Ijaw women and children.

In a statement signed by Andrew Elijah, Chief Staff to IMG on behalf of Comrade Joseph Evah, Coordinator who is on medical trip abroad, the IMG insisted that JTF operations in recent times were not targeted at militants but against peace loving Ijaws in Ayakoromo and villages around.

It added that for JTF to mobilise all the armed forces to bombard innocent villages in the name of looking for a few number of militants clearly shows that JTF was only playing to the gallery to convince the oil companies and other sponsors to retain them in the region.

“We want the world to ask the JTF how arms returned to militants and how these few number of young men regrouped after accepting amnesty without the knowledge of security operatives.What is the work of lntelligence branch of JTF? Are Ijaw villagers suffering like the Iraqis because JTF wants to prove the point why the federal government and oil companies are destroying our homeland?”

The group urged United Nations to investigate JTF operations to know the level of innocent people killed and properties destroyed as well order JTF to stop further genocide in the Ayakoromo area. “We have not seen Military men sacking comunities along Lagos_Ibadan Expressway because of criminal activities of few individuals.