The Movement for the
Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) has taken responsibility for
yesterday’s sabotage attack on pipelines of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) refinery in Okrika,
Rivers State.
In a statement today, it said the attack was line with the
movement’s on-going ‘Hurricane Exodus’,
and was intended to bring down the entire refining facility.
“This facility was
infiltrated by a few of our fighters with the aid of our internal agents within
the NNPC contrary to speculations that the sabotage was carried out by
“pipeline vandals and oil thieves”, which is a very convenient phrase used in
shielding the truth from the public,” it said, stressing that thorough
investigations will reveal that the bomb fragments from the blast are the same
in the Warri Refinery explosion of October 22, 2013.
MEND further
warned: “We will persist with our attacks
on the Nigerian oil industry due to the inaction of President Goodluck Jonathan
who continues to rely on an unsustainable and fraudulent Niger Delta Amnesty
programme which is only a guise to line the pockets of Goodluck Jonathan, his
wife Patience, Jonathans cronies and members of the Amnesty Committee whose
sudden wealth remains unchallenged by the Nigerian media.”
It reiterated that the entire Amnesty process is a fraud on
the people of Nigeria who are being promised peace in the Niger Delta, in the
absence of justice, adding that ‘Hurricane Exodus’ is still on course.
Source: Sahara Reporters
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