Warri — Construction firm Julius Berger Nigeria Plc has said that it pays at
least one million naira for each ship that is allowed to "come up the river"
unmolested by youths operating along the Warri water ways in Delta
State.
A top official of the firm also said that armed soldiers and Naval
personal deployed to escort the company's vessels are often the first to
take to their heels sighting pirates, hence the resort to settling the
youths.
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