The Nigerian armed force liberated 14 team individuals from a Chinese fishing boat from their privateer criminals on Saturday following a month in imprisonment, following a payment installment, the military said. 

The team of six Chinese, three Indonesians, a Gabon public, and four Nigerians were abducted toward the beginning of February when the fish fishing bat was assaulted. 

"A payment of $300,000 was paid before we showed up to protect them," and bring them securely to Nigeria, Lieutenant Colonel Mohammed Yahaya told AFP. 

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Seize assaults on ships for delivery have become regular occurrences in the Gulf of Guinea which runs from Senegal to Angola, taking in the southwest shoreline of Nigeria. 

The culprits are typically Nigerian privateers. 

The Gulf of Guinea represented more than 95% of all oceanic kidnappings a year ago 130 out of 135 cases, as per the International Maritime Bureau (IMB), which screens security adrift. 

The Chinese fishing brag, enrolled in Gabon, was seized by such privateers utilizing fast boats of the Gabonese port of Port-Gentil on February 7. 

The boat with the team still ready was recognized approximately 110 kilometers from the Nigerian island of Bonny a couple of days after the assault. 

Sea security advisors Dryad Global said the seized Chinese boat was utilized as a "mothership" for assaults on oil big haulers. 

Robbery in the Gulf of Guinea has its underlying foundations in Nigeria's Niger Delta where oil abundance has neglected to arrive at nearby populaces and profound neediness has stirred up hostility and furnished agitation. 

Posses speed out from marshes to strike passing vessels, grab groups and soul them back to Nigeria's shores. 

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