State Security Service (SSS) announcement of arresting our members is a joke, said Niger Delta Avengers, in a statement posted on its website. The
Avengers, notorious known for its destruction
of oil and gas
installations across the oil-rich region, said the SSS should grant reporters access to the suspects in its custody to substantiate its
claims that those arrested were members
of the militant group. The SSS had said in a statement distributed
on Friday that two members of the Avengers were arrested
as a result of intensified
surveillance the service recently put in place to forestall criminal
activities across the
country.
The statement, signed
by Tony Opuiyo, also said some members of
the separatist
Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, as well as other criminal elements in different hideouts
across the country, were
also arrested in the operation which lasted
throughout the month of June.
Christian ‘Sensor’ Oluba
and Selky Torughedi were the two individuals with alleged
ties to the Avengers who
were apprehended
while plotting to launch
an attack on an oil installation, the SSS said.
But in the statement
signed by its
spokesman, Mudoch
Agbinibo, the Avengers
faulted the Director
General of the SSS, Lawal Daura,
for trying to fool President
Muhammadu Buhari by giving him a false sense of comfort over the situation in the region.
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