Two weeks after the Niger Delta Avengers (NDA) entered into a ceasefire agreement with the federal government, the group has resumed attacks on oil installations.
Initially, the militants denied having any agreement with the government in spite of the withdrawal of troops from the Niger Delta region to give room for dialogue.
When they eventually accepted dialogue, the group gave their demands, warning that failure to meet the conditions would lead to a new round of violence.
“We want a peace with honour not a peace of our time,” Mudoch Agbinibo, spokesman of the group, had said.
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However, in new messages posted on its Twitter account, the NDA said it damaged five oil pipelines between Friday and Sunday.
The group usually announces its attacks through its website and social media accounts.
The pipelines said to be affected in the fresh attacks are:
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- Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) Crude Oil Trunk Line to Warri Refinery.
- Two Nigerian Petroleum Development Company (NPDC) crude trunk lines in Delta state.
- WELL 7 and WELL 8 close to Abiteye flow station in Delta state.
All the attacks happened after the Department of State Services (DSS) announced that it had arrested two members of the group.
Avengers had denied the arrest of its members, claiming that those in DSS custody were “sleeper agents” of the secret police.
Ibrahim Idris, acting inspector-general of police, paid a visit to some communities in the stronghold of militancy, seeking the support of stakeholders to end hostilities.
President Muhammadu Buhari has also appealed to the militants to stop sabotaging government’s efforts, with Ibe Kachikwu, minister of state for state for petroleum, touring some places in Gbaramatu kingdom in Delta state, also a hotbed of militant attacks.
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Nigeria’s oil production level soared during the two weeks that the militants suspended their attacks.
2 comments
Well done Avengers. Blow everything out! Blow your future out! It is well with you. The Scripture says NO MAN BUILDETH A TOWER WITHOUT COUNTING THE COST. Continue to blow, you hear me?
Congratulations to avengers may you succeed in ruining all your lives. Bravo
Avengers you are on the right path, blow all the oil wells and installations to ashes and blow away all your future.
By the time you finish there will be no agricultural lands, no fish in the rivers and no way of exploring oil that may or may not improve your life. An for those your sponsors that are cheering you on, their families will be overseas and you avengers will be in a deep sh**.
Carry on avenging all you like. Ruin everything in your path in Niger Delta,but please do not blame it on anyone except yourselves.