Nigeria: JTF Launches Manhunt for Bakassi Militant Leader

27 August 2012

Following its successful rescue of 28 workers of an oil servicing company, Sinepoc at the territorial waters of Bakassi on the Nigerian side of the peninsula late last week, "Operation Pulo Shield", the Joint Military Task Force (JTF) that carried out the raid has declared leader of the militant group that took the workers hostage, Lato Marine, wanted.

He wanted for leading insurgency in the Gulf of Guinea and involvement in smuggling, illegal oil bunkering and piracy.

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