TWO PIPELINES BLOWN BY NIGER DELTA MILITANTS AGAIN TODAY

Two pipeline blown up by suspected militants in the early hours of Monday close to Batan community in Delta State.

The attack came after the Niger Delta Avengers (NDA) denied holding any meeting with the Minister of Youths and Sports, Mr. Solomon Dalung, at Oporoza, claiming that the minister was apparently defrauded by some chaps.

In the meantime, another militant group known as Niger Delta Suicides (NDS) has sounded a warning that it would destroy the Nigerian economy in different forms if government refuses to create an atmosphere for dialogue genuinely.

Also, the Chairman of Batan community, Dickson Ogugu, confirmed the attack, and said: “We heard a double explosion at about 12:05am between Camp 3 and Kokologbene communities.

” A security officer attached to 3 Battalion, Effurun, near Warri, who also spoke to Vanguard, said a team of military personnel has been drafted in company of a surveillance team to ascertain the extent of damage.

According to the spokesman of the Avengers, Brig. Gen. Mudoch Aginibo, in his reaction to the alleged visit by the Sports Minister, asserted that: “The Minister of Youth and Sports, Solomon Dalung, narrated how he met some self-acclaimed Niger Delta Avengers in Oporoza, Gbaramatu kingdom. We are here to let the public know that Niger Delta fraudsters have defrauded the Minister.

” “Niger Delta Avengers cannot stoop so low to send representatives to meet a common Minister of Youths that does not know his work.

“Solomon Dalung has been defrauded and played by Niger Delta fraudsters, he did not hold any meeting with us, Niger Delta Avengers.

“Let me make it clear that any meeting with the Avengers that the international community is not part of, we will not be part of such dialogue as well,” Agbinibo added.

Trouble looms NDS, in a statement by its spokesperson, Amakiri, asserted: We, the Niger Delta Suicides, NDS, wish to warn the present government and those clamoring to frustrate the efforts of Niger Delta Avengers to have a rethink and create a genuine platform for dialogue, otherwise, we will use our oil to survive and they will eat their yam.”

“This fight is a fight by everyone, including children yet unborn. Thank God, we have successfully planted Adaka Borohs and Tompolos everywhere. So, we are waiting,” he said.