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Nigeria: Militants Attack Chevron Facility, Shut Escravos Terminal
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Daily Trust (Abuja)
23 June 2008
Posted to the web 23 June 2008
Henry Omunu
Militants in the restive Niger Delta region claimed yesterday, that their fighters had attacked the Chevron oil facility located at Abiteye Olero crude oil line near Escravos, resulting in the shutting down of operations at the terminal which produces more than 100,000 barrels of crude oil per day.
Spokesperson for the Joint Revolutionary Council, Cythia Whyte who disclosed this yesterday in Port-Harcourt in an on-line message said attacks on key oil installations in the region will continue as long as the federal government continues to short change the people of the oil-rich region.
Only last, Saturday, Chevron suffered a big loss in its Abiteye Olero crude oil line near Escravos resulting in the shutting down of operations at the terminal which produces more than 100,000 barrels of crude oil per day.
"More of such attacks will continue as long as our people continue to be short changed in the affairs of the Nigerian state", the Whyte said, adding that. "Violence begets violence. If they attack us, then we too would follow that option. No one has the monopoly of violence. Rebellion against tyranny is righteousness before God. We have suffered enough.
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"If the armed forces of the Nigerian state attack our people, then we too will attack their people. It will be a war between David and Goliath. Our strength is in our belief in the Almighty God and in the fact that the people of the Niger Delta deserve a better deal."
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