The Niger Delta Avengers have blown Up another crude oil exporting base.
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Nigerian oil officials had said earlier that pipeline repairs in the Niger River Delta could help the country to recover its lost production rate in the coming months, according to Reuters.
“There were no attacks on our facilities”, said Exxon Mobil spokesman Todd Spitler.
Exxon Mobil Corp however denied on Tuesday that any of its facilities was attacked and destroyed by the militants.
Some Ijaw elders and traditional rulers under the aegis of Bayelsa Elders for Progress, Peace and Good Governance, have accused some of the aides of President Muhammadu Buhari of frustrating the Federal Government’s proposed dialogue with militant group, Niger Delta Avengers, and called for an investigation into the failed negotiation process.
Qua Iboe is Nigeria’s largest crude oil stream and exports usually amount to more than 300,000 barrels per day.
On Monday, the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) gave the federal government two weeks to begin dialogue in a bid to quell agitations in the Niger Delta region. “This lack of political space is eloquently expressed in the political marginalisation being suffered especially by the Ijaw people of Edo State and those in the three Warri Local Government Areas of Delta State and Ondo State”, the statement added.
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Speaking at a lecture at the Elizade University in southern state of Ondo on Friday, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo described members of the Niger Delta Avengers as ‘economic fighters, ‘ fighting for their own financial interests. The avengers have claimed responsibility for recent attacks in Nigeria’s oil rich region.
