MEND Claims Responsibility For Attack On Shell, Agip Facilities

The Movement for the Emancipation for
the Niger Delta (MEND) Thursday
claimed responsibility for the attack on
the oil facilities owned by the Shell
Petroleum Development Company (SPDC)
and the Nigerian Agip Oil Company
(NAOC) in Delta and Bayelsa State.
In a statement by its spokesman, Gbomo
Jomo, MEND stated that “at about
0300Hrs today Thursday, March 27,
2014, scuba divers from the Movement
for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta
(MEND) revisited the Shell Forcados Sub-
C pipeline in the Western Delta which we
had sabotaged earlier on Saturday,
March 01, 2014.”
“We were successful in causing further
damage to the on-going repair works,
inflicting the heaviest toll ever on the oil
industry since the commencement of
‘Hurricane Exodus’. The Movement for
the Emancipation of the Niger Delta
(MEND) also takes responsibility for the
Thursday, March 20, 2014 attack on the
Agip crude oil and gas pipelines in
Ikarama Oil Fields located in Bayelsa
State,” the statement said.
Shell has announced plans to sell its 97
km Nembe Creek oil pipeline, which has
been regularly attacked by oil thieves.
The company has also announced
planned sales of other assets in Nigeria
due to frequent attack by oil thieves.