Two individuals captured as the Navy attacks a pirate and kidnapping camp in Bayelsa.
The Director of Naval Information (DINFO), Commodore Aiwuyor Adams-Aliu, said in a statement that the Nigerian Navy (NN) personnel under Operation Delta Sanity II had arrested two suspects during a raid of pirates’ and kidnappers’ camp in Fununu community in Brass Local Government Area of Bayelsa State.
The raid, which took place on Saturday, January 11, 2025, was part of an effort to purge the nation’s maritime space of criminal elements, and that multiple arrests had been made since the operation began on December 30, 2024.
“In this instance, the suspected pirates/kidnappers, who use the camp as a hideout engaged NN personnel in a gun duel for over 30 minutes before succumbing to the superior firepower of the Navy team,” he said.
“While many criminals fled with gunshot injuries, two suspects (one male and one female) were arrested,” he said.
During the operations, items recovered included an AK-56 assault rifle, three locally fabricated guns, five pump-action guns, a foreign double-barrel gun, 68 rounds of 7.62/39mm ammunition, six rounds of 7.62/51mm NATO version ammunition, and 25 shotgun cartridges.
Additionally, four empty AK rifle magazines, a national ID card, one Monie Point debit card, an MTB SIM card, one Itel phone, an Infinix smartphone, N11,500 cash, a chainsaw engine, and one chainsaw machine, a hand saw, an Airtel pack without SIM.”
The NN will continue to work diligently to eradicate criminal activity in Nigeria’s maritime space,” he said, echoing Vice Admiral Emmanuel Ikechukwu Ogalla, Chief of the Naval Staff.
