Abuja - If the Nigerian government wants to
fight militants blowing up oil pipelines, it should
send troops into the creeks and mangrove
swamps of the Niger River delta. Not the city.
That’s the suggestion of Babalola Olarewaju, a
taxi driver who plies the airport route in Port
Harcourt, the largest city in the restive oil-rich
region.
"We’re talking about people who blow up
pipelines in the night and then disappear," said
Olarewaju, 41, as he perched on the hood of
his rickety cab outside the Le Meridien Hotel in
the city centre, referring to three T-72 tanks,
Nigeria’s main battle tank, parked about a mile
away. "What has a tank got to do here in the
city?"
Dozens of tanks and 3 000 more troops have
joined existing forces in and around Port
Harcourt in the past month; a sign the
government is pulling out the stops to quell a
new wave of violence in Africa’s second-largest
oil producer.
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