Again, Avengers Bomb Agip, NNPC Major Trunk Lines, Cut crude supply to Warri, Kaduna refineries

Again, the rampaging Niger Delta Avengers (NDA), have destroyed major oil

and gas trunk lines in Bayelsa and Delta States respectively.

Sources said the Obiobi Brass trunk line in Bayelsa is a major crude

delivery line of the Italian oil giants, National Agip Oil Company (NAOC),

while the line belonging to the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation

(NNPC) is a crude line supplying products to both the Warri and Kaduna

Refineries.
With this development, the two refineries have been cut completely from

crude supply thus affecting their productions.
But the communities in Gbaramatu Kingdom, the epicenter of the militant

activities are not happy with the continued booming of oil and gas

facilities and the attendant devastation of the environment which they

described as their only heritage.
The Avengers in their tweets claimed responsibility for the attacks which

occurred about 3.00 am Friday morning.
The group reiterated that the people of Niger Delta want to assume

ownership of their resources and urged the international community to

support the quest.
NDA in a statement by its spokesperson, Brig.-General Mudoch Agbinibo,

said: “Since the amalgamation of Nigeria in 1914 to date, our resources

have been used to sustain the political administrative live wire of

Nigeria to the exclusion of the Niger Delta.
“We are calling on the international community to come and support the

restoration of our right to peaceful self-determination from this tragedy

of 1914 that has expired since 2014. We want our resources back to restore

the essence of human life in our region for generations to come because

Nigeria has failed to do that. The world should not wait until we go the

Sudan ways.
“Since the day crude oil was discovered in commercial quantity in

Oloibiri, present day Bayelsa State, what we have been asking successive

governments in Nigeria is potable drinking water, electricity, roads,

employment, quality education/educational facilities, resource control,

participation in the oil business and inclusive government that will

engender substantial freedom.
“The reverse has been the case: from Oloibiri, Brass LNLG and export

terminals in Bayelsa; Bonny LNLG and export terminals in Rivers State;

ExxonMobil in Akwa Ibom; Escravos EGTL/ Tankfarm and export terminals;

Forcados Tankfarm and export terminals in Delta State operated

respectively by Anglo-Dutch Shell, Chevron/Texaco Overseas, Agip ENI,

ExxonMobil.
“The history of our communal lives is terror of poverty, inhumanity and

desolate living conditions. However, when you move into these facilities

operated by the multinational oil corporations, they are living like Kings

and Presidents.
“For over five decades, we had given multinational oil corporations and

their collaborator, the Nigerian state peace, cooperation and love for the

crude oil to flow unhindered from our land.
“The continuous tranquility is only manifesting in the development of

mountains, rock, valleys, deserts and lagoon, but the Niger Delta

territory continually alienated from all types of development and all

essence of quality human life, while all successive governments worship

the crude oil taken from the region. Our communities and the people are

only good at securing the pipelines, oil and gas facilities.

“We are calling on the international community, especially Britain,

France, the United States of America, Russia, China and European Union to

speak up against this ongoing terror and come to the aid of the Niger

Delta, as witnesses to this grave inhumanity and history of terror

perpetuated against the people of the Niger Delta daily.

“This history of terror, we the Niger Delta Avengers will resist and

correct with every means necessary. We have nothing to lose in the battles

ahead; justice, they say is only found within the structure of a nation

state.
“Rather than provide this justice the Nigerian government has decided to

mobilize her military might to intimidate, torture, maim, victimize and

bombard a section of the nation state and her citizenry to allow the free

flow of our oil.
“Some persons, groups, and commentators may ask what the people of Niger

Delta want? We are not like some of these personalities who run champagne

parties or turn Rivers State Government House into a house patrimony of

godsons. They say the progress and success of a nation state is the

reflection of her constitution that is not manufactured to favour some

section and excludes the yearnings and aspirations of others; but the

indwelling spiritual and historical development of its people.”

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