The Movement for the Emancipation of the
Niger Delta(MEND) confirms that the attack on a Nigerian marine police
checkpoint on Thursday March 1, 2012, in Bayelsa state in the Niger Delta
region of Nigeria was carried out by our fighters. Additionally, we are in
contact with the abductors of Captain Pikus Viktor, chief engineer Melnikov
Slava and crew member Frederick Villamor taken off a Dutch registered reefer,
"MV Breeze Clipper", anchored approximately 3 nautical miles off the
coast of Port Harcourt on Tuesday, February 28, 2012.
The kidnappers have offered to hand
these sailors who are all in good health over to one of our camps in Rivers
State. We are considering this offer as these men were not captured from a
vessel related to the Nigerian oil industry. The master and chief engineer are
Russian while the remaining crew member is from the Philippines.
M.E.N.D wishes to sound a warning to
masters of oil industry vessels considering adopting manoeuvres aimed at
preventing our fighters from boarding their vessels.
We will launch rockets at the bridge and
other parts of the superstructure of such uncooperative vessels, and ensure
such vessels are set alight, when we eventually board.
Jomo Gbomo
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