OPERATIVES of the Department of State Security (DSS) and a crack team of Naval personnel from the Nigerian Navy Ship, NSS Delta, have arrested two suspected militants with explosive devices, detonators and other dangerous items.
Already, the suspects, Emmanuel and Monday (surnames withheld) have been brought before the Magistrate Court 2 in Warri on a five-count charge.
Emmanuel also goes by the nickname Gen. Thunder Opuowei, a.k.a The River Don. Security sources accused Emmanuel of attacking oil vessels belonging to major oil companies and collecting huge sums of money running into millions of naira from them.
He was also said to specialise in issuing threat messages through the phone number, 08170453255 and demanding upward of N50million from some company executives in Warri. He allegedly threatened to blow up their vessels or bomb their tank farms if they failed to meet his demands.
Daily SUN learnt that through petitions from victims of Pathfinder to the Security agencies, a crack team of Naval Officers and SSS operatives were able to track him down in Warri and on searching his car, several lethal weapons were allegedly discovered.
Security sources said on interrogation, Emmanuel named a colleague, Monday who was also picked up and on the strength of their statements to the security agents they were charged to court. They were ordered to be remanded in Prison custody and are currently cooling off at the Federal Prisons, Okere, Warri, now under tight military guard.
Pathfinder and Bomadi were charged under the Criminal Code Law Cap. C21 Vol.1, laws of Delta State 2006 and the Delta State Anti-Kidnapping and Anti-Terrorism Law, 2013 respectively.
Source:The Sun
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