- As Niger Delta Avengers denies meeting with Youths Minister
Daring militants on Monday blasted an
oil pipeline belonging to Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) in
Batan community in Warri South West Local Government area of Delta
State.
Security sources told THISDAY that the
incident occurred at SPDC Camp Five at about 1a.m. with a huge fire
enveloping the site of the attack.
“Suspected militants attacked SPDC
pipeline in Batan at about 1a.m. with dynamites. As I am talking to you
now, the place is engulfed with fire but efforts were being made to put
it off”, he said.
Another community source confirmed the
incident, claiming that he heard a huge explosion in the midnight only
to discover it was a pipeline belonging to SPDC that was blasted.
He said: “We heard a huge explosion when
we were sleeping. We rushed out and found that SPDC pipeline was on
fire. We are not sure whether it was militants that caused it or not”,
he said.
Niger Delta Advengers (NDA), the
militant group breaching oil facilities in the Niger Delta, is yet to
claim responsibility at the time of filing this report.
Instead, the group claimed on Monday it
did not have any meeting with the Minister of Youths and Sports, Solomon
Dalung, at Oporoza in Warri South West Local Government area of Delta
State.
Reacting to the Minister’s claim that he
met with Niger Delta Avengers last weekend, the Niger Delta Avengers
said he must have been duped by fraudsters since it did not send any
representatives to “meet with a commom Minister”.
“The Minister of Youths and Sports,
Solomon Dalung, narrated how he met with some self-claimed Niger Delta
Avengers in Oporoza, Gbaramatu Kingdom. We are here to let the general
public know that Niger Delta fraudsters has defrauded the Minister.
“Niger Delta Avengers can’t stood so low
to send representatives to meet with a common Minister of youths that
doesn’t know his work”.
“Let’s make this clear, any meeting with
Niger Delta Avengers that the International communities are not part to
witness, we (Niger Delta Avengers) will not be part of any such
dialogue as well”, it stated in a release sent to THISDAY and signed by
its spokesperson, Mudoch Agbinibo.
Further investigations by THISDAY
however revealed that none of the security agencies was aware of the
said visit by the Minister.
Sylvester Idowu in Warri
source: This Day
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