Pirates Launch Twin Attacks In Oil Facilities, Kill 3, Kidnap 7

Suspected sea pirates, in the early hours of Sunday, November 28, attacked two oil installations in Bayelsa State, killing three and abducting seven oil workers. 

The armed pirates reportedly ambushed their unsuspecting victims in Okoroma and Ogbokiri-Akassa communities of Nembe and Brass Local Government areas of Bayelsa State. 

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Sources close to the affected oilfields told NAN that the gunmen reportedly shot dead a personnel of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) and two staff of the Nigerian Agip Oil Company. 

 It was also learnt that the driver of their boat, an indigene of Okoroma community, and the brother to the youth leader of the community, is still missing.

 Sources also revealed that in the ambush that occurred at Ogbokiri-Akassa in Brass Local Government area, six oil workers allegedly doing maintenance job close to their platform were abducted and whisked away. 

While the Agip oil workers and their security personnel came under attack at about 6am while working close to a manifold in the deep swamp.

Confirming the incidents on Sunday evening, the spokesman of the NSCDC, Bayelsa command, Mr Ogbere Solomon said one personnel of the command died in the ambush, while two others who were missing have been found and are currently receiving treatment at a medical facility in Yenagoa.

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 “Yes, our officers were ambushed and attacked by some unknown pirates while on their lawful duty of providing protection to some Agip oil workers close to Obama manifold in Okoroma community of Nembe Local Government,” Solomon said.

 “One personnel was killed while the other two that were missing have been found and are responding to treatment.”