29 December 2010
WARRI- IJAW Youths Welfare Association, IYWA, has alerted the United Nations that over 20,000 residents of 11 communities in Burutu and Bomadi Local Government Areas of Delta State have been under siege by soldiers, deployed by the Joint Task Force, JTF, on the Niger-Delta, to their homelands for upwards one month in the search for wanted militant leader, “General” John Togo.
In an open letter to the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Mr. Ban Ki-moon, signed by its president, Comrade Augustine Okporu and others, the group said, “Currently, more than eleven densely populated communities constituting of over 20,000 people are under siege by the occupational Nigerian Armed Forces, in the guise of fishing out criminal elements in the Niger Delta, specifically in Burutu and Bomadi Local Government Areas of Delta State”.
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