Niger
Delta Avengers, the highly dreaded Niger Delta militant group, has
struck in a Delta State community causing commotion in the area.
File photo used only for illustrative purpose
At about 3.40 am, yesterday (Tuesday), the Niger Delta Avengers, NDA, blew up a pipeline in Delta State.
The group bombed a Chevron Nigeria Limited, CNL, offshore Export
Pipeline at Escravos, Warri South-West Local Government Area in the
state.
The militant group in a tweet by its spokesperson, self-styled Brig Gen Mudoch Agbinibo, confirming its involvement, said: “At about 3:45am, our strike team 06 took down Chevron Escravos export pipeline at Escravos offshore.”
It stated: ”This action is to further warn all IOCs’ that when
we warn that there should be no repairs pending negotiation/dialogue
with the people of the Niger Delta, it means there should be no
repairs.”
“Any attempt to use dialogue to distract us so as to allow the free flow of our oil will halt the dialogue process,” NDA added.
According to Vanguard, before Niger Delta Avengers claimed
responsibility for the attack, today, chair, Ugborodo Community, Ofe
Nene, who was contacted at about 8.00 am, confirmed the explosion,
saying: “I do not have details of the incident, but a blast occurred last night at an offshore location.”
A security official, who refused commenting on the incident, said: “It
is either an attack or a spill; our men in the field were woken up at
about 4.00 am by local fishermen that noticed the spill.”
“For now, we cannot confirm if it was as a result of militant
attack or rupture on the pipeline, but all I can say is that as I speak
with you, there is a spill in the area from a damaged pipeline belonging
to Chevron Nigeria Limited.”
Attempts to speak with the General Manager – Policy, Government and
Public Relations, Chevron, Mr. Deji Haastrup, were fruitless at the
time of this report.
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