Niger Delta militants on Thursday blew up two extra oil
pipelines in Bayelsa State, threatening to bring oil production in the country
to a halt.
A
militant group that calls itself the Niger Delta Avengers, which has claimed
responsibility for most of the attacks since the beginning of the year, said it
had attacked two crude pipelines operated by Italy’s oil major Eni.
“At
about 2:00am today @NDAvengers blew up the Ogboinbiri to Tebidaba and Clough
Creek to Tebidaba crude oil pipelines in Bayelsa State,” the group said on its
Twitter handle.
“This
is in line with our promise to all international oil companies and indigenous
oil companies that Nigeria’s oil production will be zero,” the group added.
The
NDA had on Wednesday blown up two facilities belonging to Chevron Nigeria
Limited, making it the fourth time the oil major’s assets would be attacked in
less than a month.
“We
are determined to put right the wrongs of the past, where the people of this
land were treated unfairly and the environment unduly polluted and degraded,”
Osinbajo said in a speech in the town of Bodo in the polluted Ogoniland area.
“The
clean-up of this land will require change on the part of all those who deal
with the Niger Delta environment, particularly the oil companies and our
communities,” he said.
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