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Rivers State alert to security threat

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    The government of Rivers State in southeast Nigeria has declared a security alert over an alleged threat by ethnic Ijaw militants to invade communities of the Kalabari clan, a local daily reported on Friday.

    ‘The Guardian’, a Lagos daily, quoted Rivers State Commissioner for Information Ene Dateme as saying the self-styled Movement for the Survival of Ijaw Ethnic Nationality planned to attack Kalabari communities in retaliation for the alleged kidnapping and killing of some Ijaw youths in recent clashes between the Ke and Bille communities in the Degema District.

    State authorities said at least 15 people were killed in the recent fighting between the two communities, which have claimed the right to benefits due from a parcel of land on which oil giant Shell built a crude oil export facility.

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