The Niger Delta Avengers (NDA) stated that they had bombed
facility belonging to ExxonMobil in southern Nigeria, as Shell declared the
closure of a major oil pipeline.
According to sources, “At about 7:30pm, the Avengers blew up
ExxonMobil Qua Iboe 48 crude oil export pipeline.”
The militants expressed their anger as the IOCs had defied
its calls to stop exporting.
According to the Avengers, they want all oil majors to
vacate the Niger Delta region, because them and the federal government have
disappointed the people of the region from benefiting from their God’s given
natural resources for many decades oil and gas exploration.
The group is also clamouring for true federalism and
self-determination.
The renewed militancy has drastically reduced output in
Nigeria at a time the country is revolving from low international crude prices
that has adversely affected the revenue of the government.
Also, Anglo-Dutch oil giant Shell said it shut down the
Trans Niger Pipeline on Monday as a result of a leakage at Gio, in Ogoniland,
Rivers State.
Though the company did not make known the volume of
production shut-in, however, the pipeline is projected to transport 180,000
barrels per day of crude to the Bonny export terminal.
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