By Emma Amaize
PRESIDENT, Ijaw Youth Congress, IYC, Mr. Pereotubo Oweilami, yesterday, raised the alarm that many residents of riverine communities in the Niger Delta region have deserted their homes for fear of invasion, following the deployment of several warships and armored gunboats to the creeks by the Nigerian Navy for Operation Octopus Grip, not long after the Nigerian Army’s Operation Crocodile Smile II.
Oweilami, in a statement deploring the serial military drills by the armed forces in the region, said: “The military drill, code named, Operation Octopus Grip, declared by the Nigerian Navy in the region where it deployed several warships and armoured gunboats to the creeks, is tantamount to a declaration of war against peaceful and law-abiding citizens of Nigeria.”
The Flag Officer Commanding (FOC) Central Naval Command, CNC, Rear Adm. Bello Al-Hassan, had, while…
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