MEND Claims Responsibility for Port Harcourt Refinery Blast
Category: Nigerian National News
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: SaharaReporters
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