Militants Blow Up Trans Forcados Export Line After Buhari’s Meeting With N/Delta Leaders

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Militants suspected to be members of the Niger Delta Greenland Justice Mandate (NDGJM) have blown up the Trans Forcados export line hours after President Muhammadu Buhari met with stakeholders from the oil-rich Niger Delta region on Tuesday.

The vandalised state-run oil pipeline is located around the southern Nigerian oil hub of Warri, Delta State.

“The attack was carried out with the aid of dynamite and it is coming less than 48 hours after the resumption of operations at the flow station,” a security official, who declined to be named, told AFP.

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Chairman of Batan community, Dickson Ogugu, also confirmed the attack on the oil facility.

“The entire river is flooded with contents from the damaged trunkline and we are at the receiving end,” he said.

It would be recalled that the Trans Forcados export line was attacked sometime in July last year and had only commenced operations over the weekend.

THE WHISTLER further recalls that militants in the Niger Delta, under the aegis Of the Niger Delta Greenland Justice Mandate (NDGJM), on October 22nd, warned against the re-opening of the Trans-Forcados Pipeline by multi-national oil companies.

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