Niger Delta Avengers, the new militant group that has launched multiple attacks on oil and gas installations in the Niger Delta region, has struck yet again.
Niger Delta militants
In an announcement on social media website, Twitter, earlier today, the dreaded new militant group, Niger Delta Avengers, who have recently launched multiple attacks on oil and gas installations in the Niger Delta region, has struck yet again.
The group disclosed its latest assault on Friday, saying it blew up a gas and crude trunk line belonging to the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), in Warri, Delta State, late Thursday, adding that the facility was 'heavily guarded' by the Nigerian military, in an apparent attempt to mock the Nigerian armed forces' capacity to check its activities.
"At 11:45pm on Thursday.@NDAvengers blew up other #NNPC Gas and Crude trunkline close to Warri. Pipeline that was heavily guarded by Military," the group tweeted.
The militant group rejected a meeting recently convened in Abuja by the federal government, warning of its readiness to carry out an attack that will 'shock the whole world'.
"The Niger Delta stakeholder’s meeting is an insult to the people of Niger Delta. What we need is a Sovereign State not pipeline Contracts. To the IOC’s, Indigenous Oil Companies and Nigeria Military. Watch out something big is about to happen and it will shock the whole world," the group said.
The new group which has launched several attacks on oil and gas infrastructure since February 2016, is demanding a sovereign nation of the Niger Delta people.