Niger Delta Avengers is unrelenting in its onslaught against oil facilities as the group Friday owned up to a fresh attack on Agip pipeline in Bayelsa State. The group also called on the international community to intervene in the crisis in the Niger Delta Region.
In a tweet, the new militant group claimed responsibility for attack on Obi Brass Trunk line in an attack that occurred at 3:00 am on Friday June 10, 2016, “It is Agip ENI’s major crude oil line in Bayelsa State,” the group said.
This latest attack comes as the group made an attempt to appeal to the international community to step in and ensure that justice in the ownership of natural resources is done in Nigeria.
In a message on its website titled, Enough of the Injustice, the Niger Delta Avengers decried the devastation that oil exploration and exploitation has done to the environment and communities in the Niger Delta Region and called for a change in the structure of Nigeria.
The Avengers also celebrated the news that foreign refineries are no longer accepting crude oil from Nigeria. “It is good as foreign refineries have stopped buying Nigerian oil because the Nigerian state has been robbing the Niger Delta of her oil and gas. We will inform the international community when we are opened for business,” the group said.
The militants had said they are waging a war for a free Niger Delta Republic in what it tagged, Operation Red Economy, with a view to halting crude oil production in Nigeria to force the government to grant the group’s demands.
The Avengers claimed it has reduced oil production in the country to less than one million barrels a day. The militant group has released its rules of engagement, insisting that it doesn’t kill anybody or attack oil workers or soldiers. The Delta Avengers called on all other groups operating in the region to abide by these rules of engagement. “We need God now, more than ever,” the group said in a statement.
