Joint Task Force (Nigeria)
The Joint Task Force ( JTF for short ) is a military unit from Nigeria .
It was founded in 2003 from sections of the Nigerian Army , Navy and Air Force to fight armed rebel groups in the conflict in the Niger Delta . The unit has been commanded by Wuyep Rimtip since 2008.
history
On August 20, 2006, ten alleged members of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) were killed by the JTF . In an email to Reuters , MEND announced a punitive action: "Our response to Sunday's killings will come at our time, but for certain it will not go unpunished." The ten people killed are said to have been members of a delegation that, after a successful negotiation, freed a Shell employee who had been kidnapped on August 8 from being held hostage. The hostage is believed to have died.
In early December 2010, the JTF launched an offensive in the state of Delta against disruptions in oil production. Between nine and 150 people were killed during the search for John Togo in the village of Ayakoromor .
In July 2011, the government donated 11 cars and cash to the relatives of civilians killed by the JTF in Maiduguri .
Since the beginning of July 2011, the JTF is also supposed to take action against members of Boko Haram . According to Amnesty International , it killed 25 people. There were 45 injured.
On February 20, 2012, after several bomb attacks on a fish market in Maiduguri, fighting broke out between fighters from the Boko Haram and units of the JTF. According to Hassan Mohammed , spokesman for the JTF, eight cult members were killed and three market vendors injured. According to other reports, there were up to 30 victims.
command
- Brigadier General Elias Zamani (2003-2006)
- Brigadier General Lawrence Ngubane (2006-2008)
- Brigadier General Wuyep Rimtip (2008-)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Katrin Gänsler: Combating rebels by means of a total attack. In: the daily newspaper . December 10, 2010, accessed December 13, 2010 .
- ↑ a b c d Joint Task Force on the Niger Delta. In: AfDevInfo. Retrieved December 30, 2010 .
- ↑ aljazeera.net August 24, 2006: Nigerian oil activists vow revenge ( Memento of the original from March 11, 2007 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Vanguard-Online (August 27, 2006): They killed 10 negotiators, hostage, mistaking them for militants
- ↑ a b Katrin Gänsler: "Western education is a sin". In: the daily newspaper. July 20, 2011, accessed July 20, 2011 .
- ↑ At least 30 dead in attack in Nigeria. In: ORF . February 21, 2012, accessed February 21, 2012 .
