Police Confirm Murder Of Ex-militant Leader, Driver In Nigeria’s Bayelsa

Unidentified gunmen have shot dead a former militant leader and his driver on the outskirt of Yenagoa, capital of Nigeria’s oil-rich Bayelsa State, the state police boss said.

  
“I can confirm that Ebi Albert and his driver were shot dead today in their car by the gunmen who we think were trailing him from Port Harcourt,” Aliyu Musa said on telephone. 

  The oil city Port Harcourt is about 100 kilometres (60 miles) from Yenagoa.   The policeman in their company in the car escaped with bullet wounds, he said.   The motive for the killing is still unknown.  

“No arrests have been made yet.

We are investigating the killing and why he was travelling in company of a policeman,” added Musa.   Albert is believed to be among the first set of ex-militants who embraced the federal government’s unconditional amnesty deal in 2009 under which more than 20,000 former oil “rebels” gave up arms in exchange for money, training and reintegration.