Operatives of the Joint Task Force, also known as Operation Delta Safe,
disclosed on Thursday that it discovered a total of 23 decomposing
human skulls and a human skeleton during raids on militant camps
belonging to suspected members of the Bakassi Strike Force in Bakassi
and Akpabuyo local government areas of Cross River State.
A statement issued on Thursday by the Coordinator, Joint Media Campaign Centre, Operation Delta Safe,
Lieutenant Colonel Olaolu Dauda, said the camps located at Ikot Ene
Idem, Abakpa and Ikang Inam communities in the Bakassi and Akpabuyo
councils of the state were destroyed on Wednesday.
It also said that 44 suspected members
of the Indigenous People of Biafra were arrested during the inauguration
of the Bayelsa State chapter of the group.
It said the arrested suspects were
apprehended at Lakeview Club, along Mabinton Estate, Okaka Road in
Bayelsa State while trying to disrupt public peace.
The statement read, “In fulfillment of Operation Delta Safe’s
mandate to rid the Niger Delta region of crude oil theft, sea robbery,
all forms of criminality and protection of oil and gas facilities, on
October 26, 2016, troops of Sector 4 in Cross River State, acting on a
tip-off, carried out raids of Ikot Ene Idem, Abakpa and Ikang Inam
communities in the Bakassi and Akpabuyo local government areas.
“During the cordon-and-search
operations, troops discovered four militant shrines with 23 human skulls
in various stages of decomposition, a complete human skeleton and
several other human body parts. The shrines were destroyed as troops
continued the search for the perpetrators of these heinous acts against
humanity.”
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