Nigeria: Federal Government Denies Pact With Militants for Release of Hostages
Posted on: Monday, 6 February 2006, 15:00 CST
Text of report by Nigerian RSTV television from Rivers State on 5 February
The federal government says it did not enter into any agreement with militant youths of the Niger Delta for the release of four foreign oil workers held hostage.
Minister of Police Affairs Broderick Bozimo disclosed this in an interview in Abuja. Broderick Bozimo stated that there was no negotiation with the hostage-takers as was reported in some media. He stated that Ijaw leaders met and set up a committee that facilitated the released of the hostages.
The police affairs minister, however, stated that President Obasanjo was committed to ensuring a lasting peace in the Niger Delta region. You would recall that the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta recently released the four foreign workers who were taken hostage at a Shell Petroleum Development Company platform in Bayelsa State.
Source: BBC Monitoring Africa
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