Armed assailants trailed and killed a former Niger Delta rebel Ebi Albert in Bayelsa state, Nigeria.
Armed assailants trailed and killed a former Niger Delta rebel Ebi Albert in Bayelsa state, Nigeria.
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Four heavily armed gunmen numbering four , travelling in a dark-coloured Prado jeep, struck near the premise of the trendy Barracks Hotels located in the Biogbolo neighbourhood in the Yenagoa metropolis, capital of Bayelsa State, and pumped several bullets from AK47 assault rifles killing repentant Niger Delta militant, Eb, popularly called "Commander Eze" and his driver.
The gunmen, who had trailed him, shot him and his driver at closed range. Both died instantly. Their blood-soaked corpses were recovered by police officers from the Bayelsa Police command. A police officer who was part of the operation to retrieve Ebi’s remains said the bodies were recovered and properly identified by relatives of the deceased. “ That is the remains of Commander Eze and his driver, we called in their relatives and they identified them, before we took them to the morgue of the Federal Medical Centre (FMC) in Yenagoa “, the officer said.
The Niger Delta insurgent who hailed from the Odioma community in the Nembe Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, was a leader of a significant militant cantonment.
He accepted the Nigeria’s government “Presidential amnesty,” and surrendered high calibre guns with his audacious fighters. Our correspondent gathered dependably that before this latest gruesome incident, Commander Eze was locked in some serious conflict with his former fighters over either his refusal to pay his ex-combatants or short-changing them. Last week he was briefly detained at a police station in Ahoada in the Ahoada Local Government of Rivers State over a petition written against him by his disenchanted ex-fighters.
Two sources confided in Saharareporters that a rival militant leader, collaborated in the killing of Commander Eze and his driver today. The sources also revealed that during the amnesty period, the Ebi had given him his sophisticated weapons, with the assumption that when he will pay him some agreed amount of money, but when he got the amnesty money and refused to fulfill his promise to the man that is reportedly invalid in today's assassination.
Several militant leaders in the post-amnesty Niger Delta had been killed under similar circumstances, for example Soboma George, head of The Outlaws, a notorious creek/street, cult/confraternity and one of the commanders of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) in its eastern Niger Delta axis, was shot dead outside a football field on the southern axis of Port Harcourt, Rivers State capital on August 24, 2010.
On Monday night, November 24, 2010, Mr. Olali Abogha aka “Commander Areaman”, the famous Akassa warlord was shot dead by his raging ex-fighters in his house in the Akassa area, located in the Brass Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, amongst others.
In spite of the amnesty program, kidnapping and widespread violence continues out of the control of Nigerian security agencies in the Niger Delta region.
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