The Niger Delta Avengers (NDA), the new militant group attacking oil facilities in Nigeria’s Niger Delta region, has blown up another major crude oil line.
Military sources said that the militants attacked Obi Obi Brass Trunk line operated by Agip ENI, a claim earlier made by the NDA on its Twitter handle on Friday morning.
Obi Obi is a major crude oil line in the Niger Delta State of Bayesla.
The group also signaled its readiness for a full scale war in the event that the Nigerian Government rolls out its full military arsenal against it in the region.
In a statement on its website on Thursday night, the Avengers posted that the Niger Delta region had nothing to lose should war break out, saying the people had suffered oppression and neglect over the years.
In the tweet announcing the blowing up of the Obi Obi Trunk line, the group called on the international community to stop buying crude oil from Nigeria forthwith.
The tweet read: “3.am of Friday @NDAvengers blow up the Obi Obi Brass Trunk line belonging to Agip ENI. It is Agip’s Major Crude oil line in Bayesla State. It is good foreign refineries stop buying Nigeria Oil because the Nigeria state has been robbing the Niger Delta of her Oil and Gas. We will inform the international communities when we are open for business.”
In a statement on its readiness to wage war titled: “Enough of this injustice” and signed by Niger Delta Avengers spokesperson, Brigadier General Mudoch Agbinibo, the group enjoined western countries such as the United States of America, United Kingdom and France to prevail on the Nigerian Government to allow the region to control its resources.
The group lamented that rather than doing what is right, Nigerian Government had deployed its military might to the region to sustain age-long oppression of the Niger Delta people.
According to the NDA, its ultimate mission was to achieve self-determination through peaceful means, calling on the international community to support their aspiration.
According to the NDA, “We are calling on the international community to come and support the restoration of our right to peaceful self-determination from this tragedy of 1914 that has expired since 2014. We want our resources back to restore the essence of human life in our region for generations to come because Nigeria has failed to do that. The world should not wait until we go the Sudan ways. Enough is enough.”
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