Mama,
Actually, Papa's Bar is inside the Federal Lighter Terminal area of Onne Port. The access road to it passes the entrance to the Naval College Base gate which has a fortified gun emplacement. The actual port gates specify that no entry is allowed without ID. The militants arrived by bus and in the shoot-out which followed one national man and one woman were hit and injured. One militant was killed by the Navy, but they still got away with 2 expatriates.
Yet again, it goes to show that security,as has been said, is purely an illusion around Port Harcourt, as the 2 German nationals from Julius Berger were taken from a very heavily protected convoy and their vehicles were hit numerous times. I've heard company bosses and so-called security consultants brush it off as just some kind of inside job as if that makes it any less relevant. The fact is that, no matter who did it, 2 expats were taken from a heavily armed convoy. The pathetic unarmed vans with a few MOPOL which most of us travel with, give little or no protection at all. Leaving at set times and taking set routes as most of us do is also really stupid. Why don't we set more realistic flexible start times, based on leaving at random times and, even if it means taking a longer routing, take more varied routes to work? What does it cost to bullet-proof a vehicle? There was an article recently about a company in Texas which is now offering armoured vehicles specifically for Nigeria - why aren't company managements out here buying them if they expect pilots and engineers to continue working in areas which the majority of embassies have advised their nationals to leave?
They could surely go to the oil companies and ask for an increase in rates to enable them to maintain their duty of care to their employees here. After all, all the oil companies are making record profits at the moment and if they refuse to pay, the companies should refuse to fly for them any more
