Nigerian separatists hijack ship, threaten to blow it up if Kanu isn’t released

Nigerian separatists have hijacked a
merchant ship and threatened to blow
it up with its foreign crew if the FG
doesn’t release Nnamdi Kanu. Maj.
Gen. Rabe Abubakar, the Defense
Ministry spokesman, confirmed that
the hijacking occurred on Friday and
called it an act of sabotage.
Today, other officers told The
Associated Press that the navy is in
pursuit of the captured vessel. The
officers, said the hijackers have given
the government 31 days to free Kanu
or say they will blow up the ship along
with its crew. .
The ultimatum was given at the
weekend by a militant identified by
the nom de guerre of General Ben. Ben
is not a separatist but “some Niger
Delta militants have shown interest in
working with us,” said Uchena Madu, a
leader of the Movement for the
Actualization of a Sovereign State of
Biafra. .
The hijacking indicates the separatists
could be working with some Niger
Delta oil militants blamed for recent
bombings of oil pipelines in the Niger
Delta. Maritime industry reports
indicated the vessel was an oil tanker
seized about 100 miles off Nigeria’s
Bakassi Peninsula