A militant group in Nigeria’s oil region issued the first photographs of two British oil workers held hostage for four months and said the release of Robin Hughes and Matthew Maguire is tied to the group’s detained leader being freed by Nigerian authorities.
“We intend to hold on to them for as long as a very sick and dying Henry Okah is held hostage by the Nigerian state,” Jomo Gbomo, a spokesman for the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, or MEND, said in an e-mailed statement. “God forbid that Henry Okah should die in detention.”
“We intend to hold on to them for as long as a very sick and dying Henry Okah is held hostage by the Nigerian state,” Jomo Gbomo, a spokesman for the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, or MEND, said in an e-mailed statement. “God forbid that Henry Okah should die in detention.”
