Niger Delta Avengers Destroy More Chevron, NPDC, NNPC's Facilities

….Group condemns acts
Two days after it resumed its deadly attacks, Niger Delta Avengers (NDA)

has confirmed blowing up more oil facilities in Warri, the commercial

nerve center of Delta State, late Monday night.
Spokesperson, Brig Gen Mudoch Agbinibo, confirmed the fresh attacks on

NDA’s website on Tuesday.
The statement said: “At 10pm Niger Delta Avengers blow up Chevron Well 10

close to Otunana flowstation.
“Other attacks were carried out at 11:15pm Niger Delta Avengers blow up

NPDC Manifold close to Banta and two PPMC/NNPC crude oil trunk Lines.”

It was gathered that facilities attacked were two manifolds, operated by

the Nigerian Petroleum Development Company (NPDC), a subsidiary of

Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) at Batan community in Warri

South West Council Area of the state.
Also destroyed were two crude oil trunk lines, facilities of the Nigerian

National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and Well 10 operated by Chevron

Nigeria Limited (CNL) at Makaraba village in Gbaramatu Kingdom.

The group confirmed that the coordinated incidents took place at about

10:35pm and 11:20 late Monday night.
Military and local sources confirmed the attacks , but the officials of

the oil firms were not ready to react to the dastard acts by Avengers.

Meanwhile, Condemnations have continued to trail the weekend bombings of

five oil and gas installation by the rampaging Niger Delta Avengers (NDA)

after a lull in their nefarious activities.
A foremost Non-Governmental Organization, Center for Peace and

Environmental Justice (CEPEJ), has joined the league of Nigerians and

organizations to condemn the dastard acts which have upended the gains

recorded in recent weeks.
This is contained in a statement signed by its Coordinator, Comrade

Sheriff Mulade, stating that the continued bombings of oil and gas

facilities was ill-wind that does the region no good rather it was

adversely affecting the environment and slowing down the economy.

The NGO reiterated its appeal to the Avengers to sheathe its swords and

allow peace to reign as no development can take place in an environment

wracked by conflicts.
Besides, the Center appealed to the federal government to go ahead with

the proposed peace talks, but cautioned against engaging the militants in

the peace parley, suggesting rather that critical stakeholders should be

identified and engaged by the government; otherwise government would

create more rooms for other pseudo groups to emerge.

''If the government wants to truly resolve the issues, it should involve

critical leaders and not political stakeholders; otherwise it will be

another jamboree and failed attempts. The fundamental issues are clear:

the people of the Niger Delta need development and remediation of their

environment which has been devastated by years of oil and gas exploration

and exploitative activities.
''The politicians are the beneficiaries of the system. When they are

fraternizing with the militants on one hand, they want to end militancy on

the other. That is why we said the government should not make it a

political talk, rather Niger Delta stakeholders at the grassroots should

be involved''.
The group warned that the Dialogue Committee constituted by the Federal

Government should not be seen as a diversionary ploy, explaining that

weeks after President Muhammadu Buhari announced the composition of the

committee, nothing concrete has happened.
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