On Sunday, the fourth Brigade of the Nigerian Army, garrisoned in Benin, had said it captured 10 suspected activists and pipeline vandals in the Niger Delta locale.
In any case, in a post on its Twitter handle, @NDAvengers early Tuesday, the Avengers said the military's cases were spurious.
"Our consideration has (been) attracted to the capture of 10 Niger Delta Avengers' young men by Nigeria Military. None of our strike group has been captured," the gathering said. "It's every one of the an untruth."
The gathering likewise prevented that any from securing its individuals had been murdered, in opposition to a case credited to the military Joint-Task Force working in the district.
"Nigeria Military additionally lied that NDA kill(ed) officers. We haven't occupied with battle with them yet in the event that they need us to slaughter them let them come after us," it said on another tweet.
In a quick response, the Army representative, Sani Usman, said those paraded affirmed enrollment of the activist gathering amid cross examinations.
"We paraded them for the world to see since we could build up that they're activists and individuals from that new gathering," Mr. Sani, a colonel, said. "The gathering has come about to promulgation since they know the media will report their exercises and I think the overall population ought to be careful about the unwarranted cases being made by this faceless gathering."
"Nigerian Army is a constituted power in this nation and we won't bring down ourselves to shoddy untruths like the Avengers, that is the place you can't see any premise for correlation amongst us and them."
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