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| Niger Delta Avengers announce promotion soldiers after successful attacks at Escravos, Warri and batan. Hits major NNPC Trunkline and Chevron facilities in Delta State |
The Niger Delta Avengers, the new militant group that is putting Nigeria at its toes has announced the promotion of some of its soldiers after their recent successful operations in various parts of Delta State.
The Avengers stated that the promotion was a form of reward, supposedly for carrying the recent attacks.
Niger Delta Avengers
The @NDAvengers high Command has rewarded some brave and courageous Soldiers of Avengers.Have been promoted to the rank of a Brig.General
The Avengers launched multiple attacks on oil and gas installations in Delta State in the last couple of days.
The latest attack announced by the Avengers on Friday, was the blowing up of a gas and crude trunk line belonging to the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), in Warri, Delta State, late Thursday.
The Avengers announced the attack via its Twitter handle. “At 11:45pm on Thursday.@NDAvengers blew up other #NNPC Gas and Crude trunkline close to Warri. Pipeline that was heavily guarded by Military,” the group tweeted.
Residents of the area said the attack on the crude pipeline caused an oil spill.
Other attacks were carried out in Batan and around Escravos.
Eric Omare, an aide to Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State, and a youth activist, confirmed the incident on telephone to Premium Times on Friday.
“Another crude pipeline was attacked Thursday night near Batan oil field in Warri,” he said.
“There were two attacks on Pipelines and Petroleum Marketing Company and NNPC pipelines, following shortly after an earlier attack on Chevron in Escavos,” Mr. Omare said.
The Niger Delta Avengers had shunned a meeting recently convened in Abuja by the Nigerian government, warning of its readiness to carry out an attack that will “shock the whole world”.
The Niger Delta stakeholder's meeting is an insult to the people of Niger Delta. What we need is a Sovereign State not pipeline Contracts.
the Avengers on Thursday, claimed responsibility for an attack on a gas pipeline belonging to Chevron in Delta state.
“We warned Chevron, but they didn’t listen. NDA just blew up the Escravos tank farm main electricity feed pipeline,” it said.
The militants said the oil facilities were sabotaged following attempts by Chevron to carry out repairs of main Escravos crude oil pipeline it blew up earlier.
A spokesperson for the group, Mudoch Agbinibo, had earlier this month warned the Nigerian government of further attacks if their demands were not met.
Last week, Chevron’s Makaraba crude oil line was attacked on the offshore Okan manifold in the region.
The attack followed previous ones on the company’s facilities at Abiteye, Utunana and Makaraba platforms in Warri South-West area of Delta State resulting in the loss of over 40,000 barrels of oil per day.
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