The Bayelsa State
Police command, on
Tuesday said it had
retrieved ten bodies of
its officers who were
gunned down over the
weekend by suspected
members of the
Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, MEND.
Sources say those killed were part of a larger team deployed
from the police headquarters in Yenagoa to escort some
individuals to a burial in Southern Ijaw Local Government
Area of Bayelsa.
They were traveling in a boat to Azuzuama for the burial of
the mother of Kile Torughedi, an ex-militant leader, who
currently is a special assistant on maritime security to
Governor Seriake Dickson.
The officers’ remains were found by a team of security
agents comprising the Nigerian Army, the Navy and marine
police.
However, search is still on for two others killed in the attack.
Dailpost gathered that the bodies of the deceased were
disfigured by their attackers.
Confirming the recovery, Bayelsa
State Police Commissioner,
Kingsley Omire, while speaking in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa state
capital, disclosed that a combined team of security
personnel recovered the bodies along the creeks of
Azuzuama, Ijaw South local government area.
The bodies of the men which arrived the jetty belonging of
the Bayelsa State Ministry of Transport on Tuesday night,
was later deposited at the mortuary of the Federal Medical
Centre in Yenagoa.
MEND had earlier claimed responsibility for the killings.
Curiously, the police and the Bayelsa State government
promptly refuted the group’s complicity.
The incident occurred only a day after the stipulated date
MEND said it would commence a violent onslaught in
reaction to the incarceration of its leader, Henry Okah.
Okah was last week sentenced to twenty-four years
imprisonment for masterminding the October 1, 2010
Independence Day bombing.
At least twelve people lost their lives in the attack.
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