{"id":9159,"date":"2016-05-19T16:40:52","date_gmt":"2016-05-19T16:40:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=9159"},"modified":"2016-05-19T16:40:52","modified_gmt":"2016-05-19T16:40:52","slug":"five-niger-delta-avengers-members-seized-by-jtf-over-pipeline-bombing-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=9159","title":{"rendered":"Five “Niger Delta Avengers” members seized by JTF over pipeline bombing released"},"content":{"rendered":"

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THE five pipeline surveillance workers, alleged to be members of the Niger Delta Avengers, seized by the Joint Task Force, JTF, in the Niger Delta, last Friday, in connection with the bombing of Pipeline belonging to Chevron Nigeria Limited, CNL, at Makaraba community, Gbaramatu clan, Warri South-West Local Government Area, Delta State, have been released.<\/p>\n

\"Militants\"<\/a>Released were Samuel Emiko and Alfred Timedi, ( Itsekiri) and Isaac Edinde, Henry Arogboritse and Kelvin Mordi (Ijaw), arrested by soldiers while on surveillance duty for a contractor to Chevron.<\/p>\n

Acting Secretary , Gbaramatu Council of Chief,Chief Godspower Gbenekama, who was among the leaders that raised dust over the arrest said, \u201cYes, I am aware that they released them on Wednesday night, I want to thank you people in the media for crying out for us.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe released workers were asked to report next Wednesday,\u201d a security source, who also confirmed their release, told our Correspondent.<\/p>\n

He said, \u201cThe 19th Battalion, Nigerian Army, Koko, handed them over to the Delta State Police Command, Asaba, from where they moved them to Bayelsa State and released them on Wednesday.\u201d<\/p>\n

To avoid backlash against the company following a 72-hour ultimatum by its seven Gbaramatu-Ijaw host communities, top officials of Chevron Nigeria Limited, CNL, which facilitated their freedom, met with their families, Wednesday, in Warri, and assured them that the company was handling the matter.<\/p>\n

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THE five pipeline surveillance workers, alleged to be members of the Niger Delta Avengers, seized by the Joint Task Force, JTF, in the Niger Delta, last Friday, in connection with the bombing of Pipeline belonging to Chevron Nigeria Limited, CNL, at Makaraba community, Gbaramatu clan, Warri South-West Local Government Area, Delta State, have been released. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[711,1214,1462,1681],"class_list":["post-9159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national","tag-chevron","tag-gbaramatu","tag-niger-delta-avengers","tag-warri-south-west"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Militants-1.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4oswh-2nJ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9159"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9160,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9159\/revisions\/9160"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}