Nigeria: Militants Admit Killing 4 Soldiers

16 April 2007

Port Harcourt — A group of militants operating under the name Coalition for Militant Action (COMA) has claimed killing four soldiers of the Joint Task Force in Degema, Rivers State in retaliation of the killings in Cawthorn channel of Niger Delta youths.

This claim is coming on the heels of the lamentation of the facilitator of the Niger Delta Peace Forum, Mr. Moses Siloko Siasia of the refusal of State and Federal government to sponsor their efforts at making the armed youths drop their weapons which he blamed for the upsurge in clashes between the youths and security forces

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