By Emma Amaize, Samuel Oyadongha & Emma Arubi WARRI —

THE Joint Task Force, JTF, yesterday launched a major offensive on the hideouts of regrouped militants in the Niger Delta region, in response to the Federal Government directive, capturing 14 militants’ camps even as ‘General’ John Togo, the wanted leader of the Niger Delta Liberation Force, destroyed his own camp with dynamites and other explosives before fleeing. The aerial bombardment of the “war zone”, according to security sources, began at about 2.00 p.m. with soldiers entering the creeks leading to the battle field, apparently to prevent the militants from escaping. Vanguard gathered that the soldiers renewed the battle following the escape of John Togo during last Wednesday’s night raid on his new camp which led to the death of seven soldiers and a mobile policeman with 17 injured. It was gathered that the casualty figure must have risen on the side of the militants as their initial expectation was for the soldiers to confront them in the marshy land which they were familiar with. As at the time of filing this report, there was heavy gun battle with soldiers said to be having an upper hand and determined to dislodge the militants in line with the directive of the Federal Government. Civilians in the neighbouring communities were said to have fled in droves since Wednesday night while those left behind ran into Ughelli yesterday to escape the gun duel between the soldiers and militants. “We have to run for safety in Ughelli because bullets were flying all over the places in our communities. We want to avoid stray bullets from killing us,” a villager said. It was gathered that more soldiers were also deployed to guard all oil installations as well as military barracks located in the twin cities of Warri and Effurun from an attack from the militants. Heavily armed soldiers mounted security at the JTF Headquarters at Effurun checking movement in and out of the barracks while the Naval Base, Warri was also guarded by fierce looking

Abagworo. I can see you are back, congratulations!!!,

Go JTF.

Kill allah dem.

Blazay:

Go JTF.

[size=14pt]Kill allah [/size] dem.

This dude is quite clearly mad!

As far as the JTF is concerned, they are fighting criminality. I suggest the 'militants' give up and embrace peace

Blazay:

Go JTF.

Kill allah dem.

Beaf:


This dude is quite clearly mad!

Moo-Moo

Blazay:

Go JTF.

Kill allah dem.

Mind your spellings .I understand you meant no harm.

impunity must stop in Nigeria.i am very confident that okah try is going to be fair,this is a serious issue in international arena,'war against terrorism'the best thing he should do is to prove himself guilty and beg for pardon.he ordered to current instabilty in Niger Delta,he supponsored coup in equitorial Guinea and illegal proliferation of arms he has made so much money, it time for him to repent and reject war against GEJ a man ordained by God.