Residents of Ndoro community in Ekeremor Council of Bayelsa State have fled the area following the alleged beheading of a security operative by militants. A resident, Henshaw Ebi, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) yesterday that the security official was negotiating with a militants’ leader in the area to surrender their arms when the incident occurred. “The community was thrown into apprehension and people began to flee in droves since Monday when the lifeless body of the ‘security emissary’ was seen in the community without his head.“The victim cannot be identified, because he is in plain cloth. However, the Bayelsa Government, in reaction to the development, said yesterday that there was no cause for alarm and urged fleeing members of the community to return home, as the situation had been brought under control. One of them, who spoke on condition of anonymity, stated: “We were not part of the decision to pay one and half months out of the outstanding four and half months.

Source: The Guardian January 06, 2018 04:07 UTC