No fewer than 16 Nigerian soldiers reportedly killed while on a peace keeping mission to douse clashes between two communities in the South-South state of Delta penultimate Thursday.
Following this development, a young man has released video claiming he is a youth from one of the warring community in the state.
According to the man who didn’t mention his name in the video presently trending online, the two communities namely Otuama and Okoloba are having dispute.
Why we killed #17soldiers in Deltan community, young man behind killings speaks pic.twitter.com/M2QIkGAF2f
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He said: “this video is my last video doing concerning Otuama and Okoloba fight. The two communities get issue, Ijaw people from Otuama used army to carry 3 people and they were all slaughtered.
“The day the soldiers were killed, they came to carry our community leaders and youths knew once the community leaders were captured, they will be powerless”.
He said that was reason the youths attacked and killed the soldiers. He added that his father was a retired army officer who died last year and he has lost six of his people to the fight. He therefore dared Federal Government to declare him wanted after doing the video.
At least three of the suspects who killed the 17 officers and men of 181 Amphibious Battalion, Nigerian Army, Otuama, Delta State, last Thursday, have been arrested.
