NDA struck early Saturday, May 28, in Bayelsa state, blowing up trunk lines
belonging to the Nigerian Agip Oil Company (NAOC) and Shell Petroleum
Development Company (SPDC).
Vanguard reports that the group in a tweet revealed that its strike teams, in
the early hours of today blew up trunk lines belonging to NAOC and SPDC.
“At About 2.15am on Saturday the @NDAvengers blow up Nembe 1, 2 and 3
Brass to Bonny Trunk Line belonging to Agip and Shell,” the NDA stated in a
tweet.
The NDA has threatened to do something that will shock the whole world. In
a series of tweets, the militants revealed that they blew up another oil
pipeline belonging to the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) on
Thursday, May 26, which they claimed was heavily guarded by the Nigerian
military.
The group also blasted the Niger Delta stakeholders over the meetings they
held in the region, stating that they want a sovereign state and not pipeline
contracts.
In a related development, soldiers invaded Oporoza, the traditional
headquarters of Gbaramatu kingdom, at about 1.52 am, this morning and
were still laying siege to the community as at 8am.
The soldiers, who came in no fewer than seven gunboats, allegedly beat up
residents, including an octogenarian community leader, Chief Atiti Mala, with
the butt of a gun.
“They were asking the helpless villagers to produce former militant leader,
Government Ekpemupolo, alias Tompolo, and members of the Niger Delta
Avengers,” a youth leader told the newspaper on phone.