Remains of oil workers murdered in Bayelsa recovered

The remains of two of the three oil workers killed by gunmen suspected to be militants at oilfield in Bayelsa State, have been recovered.

The search and rescue team of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, recovered the remains on Thursday.

The NSCDC Commandant, Bayelsa Command, Mr Desmond Agu, disclosed this to newsmen in the state on Saturday, recalling that the victims, two engineers and a diver, were ambushed and killed in the creeks while repairing Agip pipelines that were destroyed by Niger Delta Avengers.

Agu said, “The search team, made up of NSCDC operatives, Navy, Army, gunboat crew and others, left Obama station at 0915 hours on Thursday in search of the Agip personnel.

“At about 1100 hours, the dead bodies of two personnel were discovered in Oguama River close to Oguama community in Bayelsa. They were taken to Ogbia jetty for onward movement to Port Harcourt.

DAILY POST recalls that gunmen suspected to be militants and sympathetic to the Niger Delta Avengers who in May claimed responsibility for blowing up the facility, had killed three oil workers at an oil field operated by Nigerian Agip Oil Company, in Bayelsa on Wednesday at the oilfield located in the creeks of Nembe around Obama flow station.