•Closes social network accounts
From Emmanuel Ogoigbe, Warri
Members of the Niger Delta Avengers (NDA) on Wednesday night blasted Chevron manifolds in Warri, Delta State with a promise to do more havoc to oil installations in the region.
The group, which made the attack known on its website late Wednesday, said it blew up RMP 22, 23 and 24 all in Warri and warned expartriates and Nigerian workers to vacate the area, in order to stay away from being harmed.
In the statement signed by its spokesperson, Brig. Gen Mudoch Agbinibo, the group said: “Between the hours of 10:50pm to 11:10pm our (Niger Delta Avengers) strike team blew up Chevron Manifolds which are RMP 22, 23 and 24.”
The group which extended felicitations to Muslim fateful, said it was closing all its social network accounts due to activities of scammers and impersonators who wrongly attribute some activities to them..
NDA however denied responsibility for the alleged attack on NNPC’s pipeline at Eleme in Rivers State last Saturday and advised other groups carrying out their heinous activities to do so and be bold enough to claim responsibility instead of accusing Avengers falsely.
The group, therefore, warned the media to beware of the scammers and always follow its activities only on its website henceforth.
Senior Media Aide to President Muhammed Buhari, Shehu Sanni had, on Wednesday in an article, accused the group of killing soldiers and policemen but the militants denied any such activity’.
The group also denied being in touch with the Federal Government on any proposed dialogue to end the hostilities which have further fractured the fragile oil economy of the country amid global fall in crude oil price.
Meanwhile, former Chairman of the Delta Waterways Security Committee, DSWC, Warri, Delta State, Chief Ayiri Emami, Thursday, said the Niger Delta Avengers, NDA, wants to stop the operations of Chevron Nigeria Limited, CNL in N-Delta with its consistent and deliberate attacks on its facilities. Emami, who spoke to this newspaper, called on the Federal Government to rise up to its responsibility and protect the oil multinational. “Avengers should be quickly checked by government before they accomplish the plan to stop Chevron operations in the Niger Delta region. The militant group is sending a very wrong signal with its unprovoked and unchecked attacked on Chevron’s facilities. “The federal government should not sit down watching. It is government’s duty to protect life and property and the property of Chevron is daily at risk. “This is a very wrong message to investors and should not be tolerated, what they are doing is in the long run to send Chevron packing from the region. It has nothing to do with any struggle.”