With hundreds of guns behind him Ebikabowei Victor Ben - better known as 'General Boyloaf '- took off his camouflage jacket to reveal a T-shirt reading 'peace is golden' before embracing Bayelsa State Governor Timipre Sylva who helped negotiate the 60-day amnesty...
Many activists and human rights lawyers in the Delta claim that MEND has links to three governors – Emmanuel Uduaghan of Delta State Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State and Timipreye Sylva of Bayelsa – and George Timinimi who runs the Delta State Ministry of Water Resources (AC Vol 50 No 11)...
Militants on state payroll In February three governors - Emmanuel Uduaghan of Delta State Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers and Timipreye Sylva of Bayelsa - attended a Chatham House roundtable in London...
Omehia also travelled to Abuja on 4 June with Bayelsa Governor Timire Sylva and Delta Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan to petition President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua to release the gaoled militant Mujahid Dokubo-Asari on health grounds...
