The Nigerian navy has freed the 28 local oil workers who were held hostage by a criminal gang in the oil-producing Niger Delta.
The hostages were Nigerian employees of Chinese oil servicing firm Sinopec, navy spokesman Commodore Kabir Aliyu said.
They were kidnapped on Thursday by a gang called the Lapto Marine Force operating around the Bakassi waterways in Cross-Rivers state and freed in the naval operation late on Friday, he said.
“The gang … has been terrorising people around Bakassi waterways, killing, robbing, as well as engaging in piracy and abduction,” he added.
Four foreigners working for Netherlands-based Sea Trucks Group who were kidnapped by pirates off the Nigerian coast on August 4 were released last week.
The hostages were Nigerian employees of Chinese oil servicing firm Sinopec, navy spokesman Commodore Kabir Aliyu said.They were kidnapped on Thursday by a gang called the Lapto Marine Force operating around the Bakassi waterways in Cross-Rivers state and freed in the naval operation late on Friday, he said.
“The gang … has been terrorising people around Bakassi waterways, killing, robbing, as well as engaging in piracy and abduction,” he added.
Four foreigners working for Netherlands-based Sea Trucks Group who were kidnapped by pirates off the Nigerian coast on August 4 were released last week.
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