Avengers Blow Up Five NNPC, Chevron Facilities

The Niger Delta Avengers, at the weekend, resumed attacks on oil and gas installations in the Niger Delta region, blowing up Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Chevron Nigeria Limited (CNL) and Nigeria Petroleum Development Company (NPDC) crude oil trunk lines and oil wells in Delta State.
In a tweet, yesterday, the militant group confirmed that it actually attacked two major NNPC crude oil trunk lines to Warri Refining and Petrochemicals Company (WRPC) on Friday at about 9.15 pm.
The Avengers further tweeted: “At 11:26pm on Saturday,NDAvengers blow up two NPDC major crude trunk lines close to Batan flow station in Delta State.
“At 1:15am on Sunday, NDAvengers blow up two major Chevron Oil Wells. Well 7 and Well 8, close to Abiteye flow station in Delta State,” it added.
The group also congratulated its “fighters for a good job”, asserting that: “all five operations were carried out by @NDAvengers strike team.”
Meanwhile, the Niger Delta Avengers, has denied a statement credited to the Department of State Services that it arrested two of its members, insisting that there was no way the DSS and the Nigerian Army could arrest any of its members.
The group said those that were arrested by the operatives of the DSS were “sleeper agents” of the security outfit.
A statement, yesterday, signed by its spokesman, Brigadier General Mudoch Agbinibo, and made available to The Tide, reads: “Reports from national dailies that two suspects, Mr Christian Oluba alias Sensor, and Selky Kile Torughedi, arrested by DSS are alleged members of Niger Delta Avengers is laughable; the fact is they are sleeper agents of the DSS sent after the Niger Delta Avengers.
“The boys have the right to demand for their money from DSS; why not pay them instead of arresting and labelling them as Niger Delta Avengers’ members.
“If DSS are denying this, let them allow the suspects to speak to the press. We (Niger Delta Avengers) don’t have any connection with these boys. We dare the DSS to allow the boys to tell the world their side of the story,” the group added.

Susan Serekara-Nwikhana