"utterly destroy them...make no covenant with them, and show no mercy to them."

- Moses

The plague of sabotage descended heavily on major Shell and Agip crude trunk lines
in Bayelsa state at about 0200 and 0230 Hrs today, Wednesday, July 8, 2009.

The Agip pipeline which connects the Agip Brass terminal was sabotaged at Nembe
creek while the Shell Nembe creek line was done at Asawo village, all in Bayelsa
state.

For the JTF to claim it had secured the chemical tanker Sichem Peace when the vessel
was allowed to go immediately after the arrest of six crew members is the height
of deceit meant to bolster fading confidence by Abuja in spite of the billions of
naira put into the impotent outfit.

The JTF has arrested two repentant armed youths who approached them to take
advantage of the governments amnesty offer. We are learning that there are about
eleven of such cases currently languishing in detention inside the JTF headquarters
in Warri.

Considering its antecedent of being the judge and executioner, we wonder the fate of
the repentant youths.

We now understand that the reason the JTF are holding the traditional monarch of
Egbema kingdom is because he is suspected of providing "black magic" to militants.
If proven to be true, this is the most ridiculous reason for an abduction we have
ever heard.

Jomo Gbomo