Nigeria Tribal Leader Tells Oil Workers to Leave Delta

Tension in the oil-rich swamps of southern Nigeria continued to boil Monday, despite the earlier release of several kidnapped oil workers, after a tribal leader said more trouble could lie ahead.

Joseph Evah, coordinator of Ijaw Monitoring Group, one of the largest ethnic groups in the area warned of dire consequences unless all foreign oil workers in the Niger Delta leave and dismissed reports the military was sending helicopters to keep the calm.

“Deployment of helicopters means nothing to us because the sound of guns is like music to us,” he told Dow Jones Newswires in an interview Monday.
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