Bayelsa Maritime Workers Accuse JTF Of Extortion

The tea party be
tween Bayelsa State branch of Maritime Workers Union of Nigeria (MWUN) and the men of the Joint Military Task Force code named Operation Pulo Shield including other Marine components of the Nigerian Police seemed to have been over.
This is because the MWUN is accusing the security agents of extorting money from their members especially the speed boat operators along the water ways of the State.
The maritime workers alleged that the security agents were  making life unbearable for the indigenes of the coastal communities with the alleged extortion of between N5,000 and N6,000 from local boat operators.
The chairman of the  union ,Comrade Llody Sese, who made the accusation while speaking to newsmen in his office said, the rising cases of extortion from boat operators by security personnel along the waterways of Southern Ijaw, Nembe, Ogbia and Brass local government area was  becoming alarming
“If the boat operators refuse to pay, the boats are subtly delayed until compliance is effected.”, he lamented.