Multiple Attacks on Oil Workers in Bayelsa State: Prelude to Worsening Insecurity?

Armed men, suspected to be pirates, launched multiple attacks on oil workers in Okoroma and Ogbokiri-Akassa communities of Nembe and Brass Local Government Areas of Bayelsa State. The gunmen shot dead two staff of the Nigerian Agip Oil Company and a personnel of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps. A boat driver is still missing. In another ambush at Ogbokiri-Akassa, six oil workers were kidnapped while doing maintenance work near their platform.

Key Takeaways:

Two staff of the Nigerian Agip Oil Company and one personnel of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps were killed in the attacks.
A boat driver, an indigene of Okoroma community, is still missing.
Six oil workers were kidnapped while doing maintenance work near their platform in Ogbokiri-Akassa.
The attacked oil workers were working close to a manifold in the deep swamp.
Indigenes of Nembe and Brass communities have started raising awareness and warning fellow indigenes of the danger of travelling home due to rising insecurity in the creeks and waterways.
The Youth President of the Okoroma Clan, Tarinyu Joseph, has confirmed the incident and stated that indigenes have mobilised to recover the corpses of those killed.
The NSCDC Bayelsa Command Spokesman, Ogbere Solomon, has confirmed the incident, stating that NSCDC officers were ambushed by unknown pirates while on duty.

Statistics:

Two oil workers and one NSCDC personnel were killed in the attacks.
Six oil workers were kidnapped.
The boat driver, identified as the brother of Tarinyu Joseph, is still missing.
The incidents occurred in Okoroma and Ogbokiri-Akassa communities of Nembe and Brass Local Government Areas of Bayelsa State.
The attacked oil workers were working on a manifold in the deep swamp.

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