Nigeria: Botched Polls - JTF Confirms Killing One Person in Bayelsa

4 April 2011

Yenagoa — The Joint Task force, JTF, in the Niger Delta, code-named Operation Restore Hope, yesterday, confirmed that its troops in the region, weekend, shot dead one person during an exchange of fire at Ekeremor in Bayelsa State.

JTF in a statement by the Coordinator, Joint Media Campaign Centre, Lt. Col Timothy Antigha, said its men were deployed to enforce the no movement order and also forestall any breach of security that could affect the conduct of free and fair elections in the state when they came under attack.

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