Security sources in the area disclosed that Sea pirates carried out two attacks in the last three days in the Bayelsa waterways.
According to Sahara Reporters, the separate attacks were made against a commercial passenger boat as well as a patrol boat used by operatives of the Joint Task Force in the waterways and creeks of Nembe and Southern Ijaw areas of Bayelsa State.
The attack on the commercial boat occurred on Thursday along the coastal town of Ekeni in Southern Ijaw local government area while the daring attack on the JTF’s patrol boat took place on Saturday near the Nembe-Bassanbiri community in Nembe.
A security source stated that the attack on the JTF left a soldier badly injured. The source added that the attack on the passenger boat led to the death of a businesswoman, Rhoda Wuka Brisibe. He stated that the pirates shot the woman in the head while three other occupants of the ill-fated boat sustained injuries.
The attack took place around 11 p.m. The remains of Ms. Brisibe had been deposited at the morgue of the Federal Medical Center in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital.
The security source said the pirates ambushed the patrol boat of the JTF and critically injured one of the soldiers. Another source, a passenger boat operator who simply identified himself as Awoigha, said the sea pirates had earlier attacked a JTF platform along the Nembe Bassanbiri axis and were escaping with stolen valuables when they sighted the soldiers in a boat. “Maybe they thought the soldiers were pursuing them. They just opened fire on the soldiers,” he said.
Our security source disclosed that the soldiers were returning from an escort duty for a barge operated by an oil company when they were attacked. He added that the attack sent shock waves down the spines of JTF operatives who have battled unsuccessfully to curb their activities.
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