Togo: How JTF averted blood bath in Ayakoromor

Vanguard

2 June 2011

Togo: How JTF averted blood bath in Ayakoromor

BY Emma Amaize

WARRI — UNKNOWN to the Joint Task Force, JTF, on the Niger Delta, the aerial bombardment of May 12, on one of the camps of militant leader, the late ‘General’ John Togo, which led to his death, two days later, saved indigenes of Ayakoromor, particularly those who were regarded as military informants by the Niger Delta Liberation Force, NDLF, the militant group, led by the deceased militant leader, from being killed.

One of the leaders of the community told Vanguard, yesterday, “John Togo and his boys had in their possession a register containing names of people from the community, who they suspected gave security agents information on his different camps in the creeks and how he could be located since November, last year, when he had an encounter with the task force and killed some soldiers.

“He (Togo) believed it was people from the community that identified the location of his ‘Israel Barracks,’ which they said was off the Atlantic Ocean to the JTF and for that reason, the people whose names were on the list were marked for elimination whenever the coast was clear for him,” the source said.