Delta militants strike in T'di [Ghana], 27 arrested

Note:  These youths presumably arrived with the 200+ Nigerian post-amnesty trainees at end of January.  "Poor diplomacy" would be an understatement.

Daily Graphic (Ghana)

3 February 2011

Delta militants strike in T'di, 27 arrested  

Twenty-seven former militants from the Niger Delta State of Nigeria have been arrested by the police in Takoradi for allegedly heckling a hotel attendant and holding their coordinator hostage.

The suspects and 183 others, who arrived in the country to train at the various national vocational training institutes (NVT1) as welders and oil rig workers, were said to have locked up their leader for more than two hours in a toilet at a hotel in Takoradi where they were lodging.

The police said at the time of the arrest, the suspects were in a meeting planning to rally support across their bases in the country to attack their officers in Accra.

According to the hotel manager (name withheld), the group had been in the hotel since Thursday, January 27, 2011 and they had booked rooms for a six-month period.