Suspected Niger Delta militants in the
early hours of Friday blew up another
section of an NNPC gas trunkline
behind salvation city near Ogbe-Ijoh in
Warri South West Local Government
Area of Delta State.
The attacked trunkline belongs to
phase two of the Escravos-Lagos gas
pipeline owned and operated by the
Nigerian Gas Company Limited (NGC).
Although, details of the attack was still sketchy, it was suspected to
have been carried out by insurgents, most likely the Niger Delta
Avengers (NDA), which had claimed responsibility for earlier similar
incident in the Warri creeks.
An official of the Delta State government who asked not to be named
described the attack as a major blow to gas production and by
implication, power generation in the country.
It was gathered that those behind the sabotage used dynamites and
other dangerous weapons to carry out the attack at about 2:00am.
Confirming the incident, the Spokesman of the Ijaw Youths Congress
(IYC), Eric Omare, who is from Ogbe-Ijoh, said his community people
informed him of the incident.
“I got a call from the village this morning that there has been an
explosion on a pipeline located behind Salvation City, I think it is the
one that links Escravos to Warri and I’m not sure of the operators,
but I think it will be either NNPC or NGC”, he said.
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