Avengers ‘blow up’ Chevron’s Escravos Export Pipeline

Niger Delta Avengers, a militant group, has
announced an attack on a pipeline installation
owned by Chevron.
The group, which has not carried out any
bombing attack for the past few months,
announced the attack on its website Tuesday
morning.
Avengers also warned that no repairs should be
carried out on the attacked installation until the
dialogue with the Niger Delta people reaches a
conclusion.
“Today at about 3:45am our strike team 06 took
down Chevron Escravos export pipeline at
Escravos offshore,” the group said in a statement
by Mudoch Agbinibo, its spokesperson.
“This action is to further warn all IOCs’ that when
we warn that there should be no repairs pending
negotiation/dialogue with the people of the Niger
Delta, it means there should be no repairs.
“Any attempt to use dialogue to distract us so as
to allow the free flow of our oil will halt the
dialogue process.”
Tuesday’s attack comes exactly a month and a
day after the group blew up the Bonny 48 inches
crude oil Export Line in Port Harcourt, saying the
action was “a signature to the over-dramatisation
of the so-called dialogue and negotiation process
on the side of President Muhammadu Buhari and
his government”.
The raid drew criticism from the Movement for
the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND),
which dissociated itself from the “holier than thou
and arrogant attitude of the Pan-Niger Delta
Group over the proposed Niger Delta Summit
convened by the Federal Government”.
“We condemn, in very strong terms, the unstable,
destructive and immature behaviour of the Niger
Delta Avengers who resume hostilities at the
slightest lame excuse,” MEND said.
Source : TheCable