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.