Pirates Attack Bayelsa Police Boss

Unspecified number of pirates were on Monday said to have lost their lives when they attacked a military boat, conveying the Commissioner of Police, Mr Tonye Ebiye Ebititubituwa who was on routine tour of Commands under his control.
A Press Statement issued by the Command and signed by its Public Relations Officer, Mr Akhigbe Alex, a Superintendent of Police. Stated that the Commissioner who was in continuation of familiarization tour of Divisions and formations within the Command, visited Oporoma, Korokorosi and Olugbibiri in Southern Ijaw Local Government Area to assess the crime situations in the area.
Consequently, the statement said, gun boats deployed to beef up security in Twon, Brass, Akassa, Okpoama and Southern Ijaw Local Government area in particular were attacked between Oporoma/Oyoma water ways.
According to the statement, “at about 19.30 hours, a boat with about 10 armed men believed to be notorious sea pirates who had been terrorizing our water ways struck”
“In the ensuing gun battle, some of the pirates were feared dead, others jumped into the water, while their boats was sunk”.
According to the statement, what could have been “another calamity was averted due to the alertness of the patrol team, and the preparedness of the Bayelsa Police Command to deal with acts of criminality, piracy robbery an other crimes in the state.
The statement, therefore, urged the public to go about their normal businesses as the police is on top of the situation, saying information regarding suspicious movements within their environment should immediately be reported to the law enforcement agents.
Meanwhile 14 suspected criminals arrested in different  parts of the state were on Thursday paraded before journalists at the state police headquarters.
Among them were 419ners, robbers, bugglars, car snatchers, forgers who specialized in duplicating cars keys.