PORTHARCOURT-
NIGER Delta Avengers, NDA, shifted its hostilities from Delta State to
Rivers State, Wednesday, blowing up a Nigeria National Petroleum
Corporation, NNPC, pipeline at Eleme leading to the Nigeria Liquefied
National Gas, NLNG in the state.
The militant group claimed
responsibility for the attack, saying on its Facebook page Niger Delta
Avengers: “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.”
Meanwhile, the Joint Niger Delta Liberation Force, JNDLF,
yesterday, threatened to set seven flow stations ablaze in Bayelsa
state.
However, the Egbesu Boys of Niger Delta, a militant group
said that the ongoing warfare in the Niger Delta region 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.”
It said any attack by the Nigeria
Army might result to human casualties but the group does not want to
take life, otherwise, it would have dared 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.
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