N/Delta Avengers bomb Chevron platform, threaten Lagos, Abuja

A militant group in the South south region, Niger Delta Avengers, has blown up the Chevron valve platform crippling the company’s activities in the area.

The group also threatened that it was done with major oil installations in the region and “taking the fight out of the creeks of the Niger Delta” to Abuja and Lagos.

The Avengers in a message on their website said it would continue attacking oil installations in the country, until the federal government meets its demands.

It said, “As for zeroing the Nigeria economy we the Niger delta avengers is done with delta state major oil installations. Now we are taking the fight out of the creeks of the Niger Delta. We are taking it to Abuja and Lagos now.

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“Not until, our demands are met no repair works should be done at the blast site. Whoever that is going there for any repair work will be doing that at their detriment.”

Acting Director, Defence Information, Brig. Gen. Rabe Abubakar, confirmed the attack, and said that efforts were being made to track the perpetrators of the heinous act.

Also speaking on the incidence, Navy Spokesman, Commodore Chris Ezekobe explained that the attack took place some four miles off the Escravos River.

According to him, the platform that was partially damaged was a collection point for crude oil and gas to the main Chevron facility in the area.

Ezekobe said that the Forward Operation Base of the Navy had already dispatched vessels to protect oil platforms in the area and the facility of the Shell Petroleum Development Company that was earlier blown up by a new militant group, the Niger Delta Avengers in the Forcados area of Delta State.

 

 

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