It has been almost three years and they have not returned home.
When Gabriella complained that she was pressed and needed to use the toilet, Dorothy was asked to accompany her to the waterside.
Two days after this, two youths, Ibifubara Macdonald and Dienye Allison, were killed when they were coming back from Dema-Abbey village, Bonny. The Director-General of NIMASA, Dr Bashir Jamoh, had broken the news after a phone conversation with the President-General of the Maritime Workers Union of Nigeria, Mr Adewale Adeyanju.
Navios, which is the owner of the ship and Anglo-Eastern Tanker Management , which is the vessel’s technical manager, also confirmed the incident. “All the appropriate authorities, including the Flag State, have been alerted and are responding and all the necessary action is being taken to secure their wellbeing and early release,” the two companies said in a joint statement.
The countries on the shores of the Gulf of Guinea are Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, Sao Tome and Principe, Democratic Republic of Congo, the Republic of Congo and Angola. “Vessels are advised to take additional measures in these high-risk waters. In the past, tankers were also hijacked and part of cargo was stolen .”
“Violence against crews continues with 40 crew kidnapped, two each threatened and taken hostage and one killed.” Calling for their rescue, a group, known as The League, said nothing had been heard of the victims since masked gunmen stormed the burial, shot sporadically and took them to an unknown place.
“The League, therefore, calls on the Federal Government to deploy necessary offensive platforms in men and equipment, including helicopter gunships, along the Bonny-Port Harcourt marine corridor to tackle the emerging threat to the residents of the Bonny Kingdom and the operations of the IOCs, especially the upcoming NLNG Train 7 project.
From the information gleaned from posts on the Facebook walls of some of the agitators, the protesters raised a five-point demand to the Amanyanabo and natural ruler of Bonny Kingdom and the chairman of Bonny LGA. Ahmed said the road had three bridges — the Afa Bridge measuring 501.5m; the Opobo Bridge, measuring 713.5m; and the Nanabie Bridge, with 448.5m.
Before now, the oil majors and other companies spent huge sums of money on helicopter and boat services, sometimes at great risk as well. It also noted that the completed stretch of the road had provided easy access for residents to their farms, schools and health centres, while the stretch with the first completed major bridge and the sand-filled stretch of the alignment had provided access to the sites of the ongoing Bodo Oil Spill Remediation Project.
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