20 Militants Surrender Arms in Akwa Ibom

No fewer than 20 militants who have been terrorizing the oil rich communities of Ibeno and Eket local government areas in Akwa Ibom State have surrendered their arms to the Federal Government’s Inter-Agency Task Force on Militancy. The group known as  “Lacto Marine” took the action, according to their spokes person, to embrace peace as well as key into the government’s amnesty programme.
The leader of the Federal task force, Air Vice Marshal Jim Gbum, announced in Eket that said the committee received the militant group at the Ibeno Jetty, adding that arms surrendered by them included six browning machine guns, rocket launchers and AK-47 rifles. He said the militants responded to the Federal Government’s second phase of the amnesty programme for repentant militant groups. He further stated that the group had been responsible for crimes in the high sea between Akwa Ibom and Cross River States.

 Meanwhile, Mr. Samuel Ayadi, Chairman of Artisan Fishermen Association of Nigeira, Akwa Ibom Chapter, has commended the Federal Government for extending the programme to those who did not embrace its first phase. He said that the surrender by the group would bring the needed peace in the waterways in the state.