{"id":439887,"date":"2011-06-12T15:00:45","date_gmt":"2011-06-12T15:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/06\/12\/ex-militant-leader-driver-shot-dead\/"},"modified":"2011-06-12T15:00:45","modified_gmt":"2011-06-12T15:00:45","slug":"ex-militant-leader-driver-shot-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/12\/ex-militant-leader-driver-shot-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Militant Leader, Driver, Shot Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"29.2145025295\">\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisdaylive.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/img\/static\/publishers\/minibanners\/thisday180.jpg\" alt=\"This Day (Lagos)\" title=\"Visit This Day (Lagos)\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>12 June 2011<\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>Unknown gunmen Saturday shot dead a former militant leader, Ebi Albert, and his driver on the outskirts of Yenagoa, capital of Bayelsa State.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I can confirm that Ebi Albert and his driver were shot dead Saturday in their car by the gunmen who we think were trailing him from Port Harcourt,&#8221; Aliyu Musa, the state police boss told AFP on telephone.<\/p>\n<p>He said &#8220;the policeman in their company in the car escaped with bullet wounds.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The motive for the killing is still unknown. &#8220;No arrests have been made yet. We are investigating the killing and why he was travelling in company of a policeman,&#8221; Musa added.<\/p>\n<p>Albert is believed to be among the first set of ex-militants who embraced the federal government&#8217;s unconditional amnesty deal in 2009 under which more than 20,000 former oil &#8220;rebels&#8221; gave up arms in exchange for money, training and reintegration.<\/p>\n<p>Militant activity in the region, which included kidnappings of mostly foreign oil workers and attacks on oil installations, lowered the country&#8217;s oil production from 2.6 million barrels a day to about one million at the peak of the unrest.<\/p>\n<p>The amnesty deal led to a sharp decline in attacks, but some observers fear a return of unrest if the programme is not followed through.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<fieldset>\n<legend align=\"center\"><strong>More News on allAfrica.com<\/strong><\/legend>\n<\/fieldset>\n<p>AllAfrica &#8211; All the Time<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>View article:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201106120022.html\" title=\"Ex-Militant Leader, Driver, Shot Dead\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ex-Militant Leader, Driver, Shot Dead<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 12 June 2011 Unknown gunmen Saturday shot dead a former militant leader, Ebi Albert, and his driver on the outskirts of Yenagoa, capital of Bayelsa State. &#8220;I can confirm that Ebi Albert and his driver were shot dead Saturday in their car by the gunmen who we think were trailing him from Port Harcourt,&#8221; Aliyu Musa, the state police boss told AFP on telephone. He said &#8220;the policeman in their company in the car escaped with bullet wounds.&#8221; The motive for the killing is still unknown<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-439887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ex-Militant Leader, Driver, Shot Dead - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/12\/ex-militant-leader-driver-shot-dead\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Ex-Militant Leader, Driver, Shot Dead - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"12 June 2011 Unknown gunmen Saturday shot dead a former militant leader, Ebi Albert, and his driver on the outskirts of Yenagoa, capital of Bayelsa State. &quot;I can confirm that Ebi Albert and his driver were shot dead Saturday in their car by the gunmen who we think were trailing him from Port Harcourt,&quot; Aliyu Musa, the state police boss told AFP on telephone. 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