Militant Group Claims Responsibility For Delta Pipeline Explosion

Militant Group Claims Responsibility
For Delta Pipeline Explosion
An Urhobo militant group, Urhobo
Gbagbako, on Friday claimed
responsibility for Thursday night’s
bombing of the NPDC Oil pipelines at Ighrenene, Afiesere and Ekiugbo
communities in Delta State.
The group, which made the claims
in an email sent to some reporters,
said it is also planning to shut
down all the oil fields in Urhobo
and Isoko areas.

The email signed by the group’s s
spokesperson, Priest Omodjuvwu,
said the bombing of the Ekiugbo/
Ighrenene/Afiesere was to draw
attention to the neglect of ex-
militants of Urhobo extraction.
It said the Urhobo had been
sidelined in the pipelines
protection contracts offered to ex-
militants from other ethnic groups
and they now want to show that
they too had the capacity to cause
trouble if ignored.

The group said it had sent warning
signals to the NPDC and the federal
government on the pipeline
surveillance contracts, which had
excluded the Urhobo.

Urhobo Gbagbako however
dissociated itself from media
reports about a 14-day ultimatum
given to the federal government
and NPDC on the oil pipeline
surveillance contracts.

“We have now resumed attack on
the NPDC pipeline facilities on a
massive scale, which scale of
bombings shall be unprecedented,”
the email said.

The group said the attacks will
continue until the Urhobo got what
rightly belonged to them. It explained that Urhobo Gbagbako
Group is a militia group of all ex-
militants, youths, women and
elders of Urhobo origin.

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