troops of 222 Battalion /Sector 1 Operation
Delta Safe, 4 Brigade Nigerian Army have
arrested a suspected national economy
saboteur, one Gabriel Ogbudje (an Ex-militant
leader), also the alleged leader of the
"Otugas Fire Force", a militant group
threatening to attack Utorogu Gas Plant.
A statement by the Acting Director, Army
Public Relations, S. K Usman, states that;
Gabriel is alleged to be responsible for
the recent act of economic sabotage
perpetrated on NPDC/Shoreline major
delivery trunk line within Ogo-Oteri
general area, Ughelli North Local
Government Area, Delta State, on the
26th of last month.
The suspected militant who was trailed, was
arrested by troops along Agbor-Abraka road,
Edo State on Tuesday 6th September 2016.
He has been on the run since he was
declared wanted because of his public
declaration as the leader of the militant
group "Otugas Fire Force" and his
subsequent declaration of the threat code
named "Crocodile Tears", which was
published by the Vanguard and Thisday
newspapers on 31st August 2016, while the
Brigade was engaged on the military field
training exercise nicknamed "Operation
Crocodile Smile". Gabriel was arrested along
with his accomplice, Mr. Elvis Dweller Ejus.
Both suspects were handed to Operation
DELTA SAFE for further interrogation and
subsequent handing over to the relevant
security agency for prosecutions.
please recall also that troops of 13 Brigade
Nigerian Army in conjunction with Nigerian
Navy, Nigeria Air Force and covert operatives
of the Defence Intelligence Agency, arrested a
suspected kingpin of the Niger Delta
Avengers, Isaac Romeo, that goes by the
appellation of "G2" in their terrorists camp.
He was arrested along with two other
persons; Mr. Lawson Samson and an elderly
man, Mr. Iyang Ekpo in Calabar, Cross State
while driving in a vehicle with registration
number, CRS 86 AO1 on Saturday, 3rd
September 2016.
[b]The arrest followed painstaking efforts and
tracking of the militant who was in the state
to perpetrate further criminal activities of
sabotaging critical infrastructures. All the
suspects are currently being interrogated.
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