Ijaw women of Gbaramatu and Egbema clans in Delta state protest the socio-economic and political condition of the people by peacefully and non-violently occupying the Chevron Abiteye flow station. They plan to remain there until their demands for employment, microcredit schemes and provision of infrastructure in the two clans are fulfilled. Chevron invites the Nigerian security to get the women to disperse; some of the women are brutalized by the military invited by Chevron.

The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) can confirm that seven
more civilians were killed in cold blood on Tuesday, June 9, 2009 by the soldiers of
the military Joint Task Force.

The seven comprising 4 children, 1 woman, an elderly man, and the boat driver were
shot without warning as they approached the JTF checkpoint mounted in the inland
waterway at Kangbene community in Delta state.

These individuals had been living inside the bush and only got help to move them to
Warri refugee camps when they were killed.

In the Peace/Reconciliation Process, Gbaramatu does not constitute threat to the Oil-based Economy as touted in some quarters.

In the risk of crossfire of the fratricidal inter-ethnic conflict between the Itsekiri and the Ijaw of Warri, the oil companies particularly the Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) ordered that her workers should quit site in the crisis area of Warri.