Avengers bombs NNPC pipeline in Eleme
Meanwhile, Niger Delta Avengers, NDA, yesterday, shifted its hostilities from Delta to Rivers State, blowing up NNPC pipeline at Eleme leading to the Nigeria Liquefied National Gas, NLNG in the state, saying government was negotiating with fraudsters.
The militant group claimed responsibility for the attack, saying on its Facebook page, NDavengers: “By 3.00 am, yesterday, strike team 2 carried out a major strike, bombing NNPC pipeline at Eleme, leading to NLNG. You won’t stop us.”
The Joint Niger Delta Liberation Force, JNDLF, also yesterday, threatened to set seven flow stations ablaze in Bayelsa State.
This is as Egbesu Boys of Niger Delta, a militant group, said the ongoing warfare in the Niger Delta was an Ijaw fight for self-determination and not Niger Delta struggle as generally assumed by many.
Before the Rivers attack, NDA daringly posted at about 8.12 pm on its Facebook page: “Another major pipe about to go up in flames! Brass, LNG, Boom.”
The group said any attack by the Nigerian Army might result in human casualties, stressing that it wouldn’t want to take life, hence it was not daring the Army.
“For every life you take, we take two. We have our reason, we play cool, we are ready, and we must cripple the economy. Boom, Share,” the group added.
Govt negotiating with fraudsters
On negotiation, the NDA spokesman, Mudoch Agbinibo, said: “We, the Niger Delta Avengers, have not negotiated with anyone. If they (Federal Government) have been negotiating with anybody, it clearly shows they had been negotiating with fraudsters.’’
We’re fighting Ijaw, not N-Delta struggle —Militant group
The Reformed Egbesu Boys in a statement by the General Officer Commanding, GOC, Intelligence, self-styled General Tony Alagbakereowei, said: “We wish to state that the current crisis is purely and truly an Ijaw self-determination quest involving grievous issues, which predate the current administration.
The militant group said: “As a matter of fact, we wish to state that the crisis is centred around Ijaw communities in the western flank and central axis, including Gbaramatu communities in Warri South-West Local Government; parts of Ogbe Ijoh communities in Warri South West Local Government; parts of Egbema in Warri North Local Government; and Ogulagha kingdom (Forcados Terminal) in Burutu Local Aovernment.
“Others are Brass and Nembe Ijaw communities in Bayelsa State. These are exclusively Ijaw territorial communities and boundaries within the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
“In this connection, we wish to state that any other group or group of persons outside these properly identified Ijaw areas masquerading as negotiators are only deceiving themselves and the Federal Government.
“In this wise, we wish to alert the Federal Government, particularly the Minister of Defence, Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Minister of State for Petroleum Resources and Director-General, Department of State Services, that the purported MEND negotiators are not known to the Ijaw nation and they do not have our mandate in this subject matter.
“In fact, the so-called Niger Delta is synonymous with the Ijaw nation- the historical and traditional home of the Ijaws in Nigeria and the Diaspora. This does not exclude the fact that there are other minor ethnic groupings, but we have always played the role of big brother to them.
“Consequently, we will not allow meddlesome interlopers and our traditional antagonists, who have always constituted cogs in the wheel of progress to the Ijaw nation to take credit for our sorrow, tears and blood.
“The Federal Government allowed miscreants and meddlesome interlopers seeking relevance in Abuja to gain pipeline contracts and appointments to deceive key actors of the government.
“We are terribly angered by the antics of Ayiri Emami, we wish to call the Itsekiri Leaders of Thought and their monarch to call him to order as we are watching his excesses. We are ser
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