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Special police squad set up to deal with Delta problems

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    Nigeria's government has set up a specialised police unit to deal with communal violence in the Niger Delta, according to news reports quoting Vice President Atiku Abubakar.

    Abubakar said the police would collaborate with the army to check communal clashes, `The Guardian' reported.

    Militant youths in the Niger Delta have been kidnapping employees of multinational oil firms, seizing oil-flow stations and taking other violent action to press their demands for development and the cleaning up of the oil-polluted environment of their area.

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