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Wednesday 17 January 2018

Niger Delta Avengers say to resume hostility in Nigeria's oil sector within days

After a long period of observing a cease-fire agreement with the government, Nigerian militant group Niger Delta Avengers said on Wednesday it planned to resume attacks on the country’s oil sector in the next few days.
The group said its sole aim of resuming attack to cripple the economy of Africa's top crude produce is for the government to take steps to restructure the country.
"our demand unambiguously is for the government to "RESTRUCTURE THIS COUNTRY," is said in the post.
According to the unsigned post, the group agreed at a meeting on Monday that the killings and division presently playing out in Nigeria along divergent grounds makes this the perfect time to restructure this country. The group claimed responsibility for most attacks on oil facilities in the Niger Delta in 2016, which cut Nigeria’s crude production from a peak of 2.2 million barrels per day to near one million barrels per day.
That was the lowest level seen in Africa’s top oil producer in at least 30 years.
"This round of attacks will be the most deadly and will be targeting the deep sea operations of the multinationals," the group said in a statement on its website ( www.nigerdeltaavengers.org/ ).
The group, which wants a greater share of Nigeria’s energy wealth to go to the impoverished Delta region, said its targets would include Bonga Platform, Agbami, EA Field, Brittania-U Field, Akpo Field. In November, the group said it had ended a ceasefire.
In 2016 the Niger Delta Avengers bombed the Forcados sub-sea pipeline, a strike which involved the use of divers.
Since January 2017 no substantial attacks have been carried out by any groups in the Delta, Nigeria’s southern oil production heartland.

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