Nigeria: Women Barricade East-West Road As Military Launches Manhunt for Militants

23 September 2016

Warri — Scores of women from Iwhre-Nene community in Ughelli North Local Government Area of Delta State yesterday blocked a side of the Ughelli axis of the East-West Road in protest over the alleged intimidation and arrest of indigenes of the community by soldiers on a manhunt for members of the Urhobo/Isoko militant group, Niger Delta Greenland Justice Mandate.

Operatives of 122 Battalion, Nigerian Army, Agbarha-Otor in Ughelli have been combing some communities in Ughelli axis since last Monday when the militant group claimed it breached the Afiesere - Ekiugbo delivery trunkline operated by NPDC/Shoreline under its Operation Crocodile Tears.

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