{"id":9433,"date":"2016-06-07T19:53:25","date_gmt":"2016-06-07T19:53:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=9433"},"modified":"2016-06-07T19:53:25","modified_gmt":"2016-06-07T19:53:25","slug":"nigeria-navy-claims-major-breakthrough-in-fight-against-niger-delta-militants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=9433","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria Navy Claims Major Breakthrough in Fight Against Niger Delta Militants"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Nigerian Navy has announced a major breakthrough in its fight against Niger Delta Militants.<\/p>\n

The Commander, NNS Delta, Commodore Raimi Mohammed, on Tuesday said the force has apprehended the alleged coordinator of series of attacks on the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and Chevron oil and gas facilities in Delta.<\/p>\n

He said the suspect was apprehended on June 2.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am pleased to announce that after several weeks of persistent effort the Nigerian Navy, in collaboration with other security agencies, have arrested the main coordinator of attacks on NNPC and Chevron oil and gas facilities.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe attacks were the bombing we witnessed since May 4 with the attack on Chevron Okan valve platform offshore in Escravos in Warri South-West.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have recovered some Impoverished Explosive Devices (IED) for blowing up and vandalising pipelines.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe have decided not to give out the name of the suspect because he is helping us with useful information that could lead to the arrest of others,\u2019\u2019 Mohammed said.<\/p>\n

He added that the suspect was deeply involved in pipeline vandalism and crude oil theft. According to him, his arrest came after several weeks of trailing and arrest of some of his foot-soldiers.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe suspect has stolen crude oil from about 35 abandoned oil well heads and crude oil pipelines in Okpoko and Obodo in Warri South-West Local Government Area,\u2019\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n

The military officer added that another suspect identified as Michael John, who allegedly murdered three soldiers in Jones creek and one soldier and a policeman in Batan community, has been apprehended.<\/p>\n

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The Nigerian Navy has announced a major breakthrough in its fight against Niger Delta Militants. The Commander, NNS Delta, Commodore Raimi Mohammed, on Tuesday said the force has apprehended the alleged coordinator of series of attacks on the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and Chevron oil and gas facilities in Delta. He said the suspect […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9434,"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":[711,338,2108],"class_list":["post-9433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national","tag-chevron","tag-nnpc","tag-raimi-mohammed"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Avengers.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4oswh-2s9","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9433","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=9433"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9435,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9433\/revisions\/9435"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}