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Over the last month, 31 foreign oil workers have been freed, apparently after the payment of ransom. The government usually denies that ransom is paid, but that is hard to believe.Read more!!!

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STONERS
March 17, 2007, 2:33 p.m.
Some of the kidnapping gangs make political demands, and these are rarely met. So the only incentive to free the captives is ransom, and that is apparently being paid with the condition that the details be kept secret. Europeans and Americans are apparently worth several hundred thousand dollars each, captives from other parts of the world, much less. In the last fifteen months, about a hundred foreign oil workers have been taken by gangs in the Niger Delta. The oil companies have beefed up security, but it's become difficult to recruit the skilled people needed to run the oil operations.

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