Port Harcourt — Militants, under the auspices of Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), have destroyed more facilities in Delta State belonging to American oil giant, Chevron whose Otunana flow Station caught fire last week.
However, the Joint Task Force Spokesman in the Niger Delta, Colonel Rabe Abubakar in response to an inquiry by THISDAY said there was a loud bang in the facilities MEND claimed to have destroyed but could not confirm what happened until experts ascertain the situation.
"There was a report of heavy sounds in these oil facilities, however, the company management are working round the clock to ascertain the cause, unless that is done, we can't categorically confirm because we are not technicians," Abubakar said in response to a text message.
The MEND in a three line statement from their official e-mail address and signed by its Spokesman, Gbomo Jomo claimed to have destroyed Makaraba oil wells 3 and 5 together with its trunk and gas lifts at 0005 hrs which means yesterday. They also claimed to have earlier on Friday destroyed Otunana well 1 with its trunk and gas lifts. The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta carried out the recent attacks against Chevron in Delta state:
"The Makaraba oil well 3 & 5 and it's Trunk line and Gas lifts were blown up at about 0005 Hrs today, Saturday, June 13, 2009.
"Earlier at about 22.10 Hrs on Friday, June 12, 2009, the Otunana oil well 1 and its Gas lift and Trunk lines were also destroyed", Jomo said.
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Capitalism is dying! The MEND organization has a right to protect its resources and the bootlicking government officials that exploit the people of Africa in favor of multinational oil conglomerates should cease. Here in America people are beginning to realize that we can not have our cake and eat it too at the expense of poor people around the world. For so many years our gas has been inexpensive because of the unfair working conditions and the expoitation of native peoples resources & labor, mainly oil & natural gas. We must realize that these cost are at a price of human life. I unite with the MEND fighters. Hit them where it hurts in the pocket. One Africa, One Nation!
All these d millitant are doing what is d president of Nigeria doing about it,we earn our money from these oil 100% of it,if d government didn't take any reaction, the millitant they sha destroy all our oil,& at d end we sha be d one to lose not them,because we open our eyes seeing all our money been waist by d millitant,pls d government should do somethings seriously consigning these elegal issuse.thanks fro alibor pius Nigeria.
Chevron has no business going into countries and paying their workers less than a dollar a day. A corporation that rakes in billions in profit owes greater accountability to those who make it what it is. Plus, Nigeria needs to use whatever profits it gets from the oil industry to build its infrastructure. What will happen to Nigeria when all the oil is gone and the country has nothing to show for it? I don't condone MEND's actions, but I can't blame them either. As an American I can tell you that I will never buy a drop of gas from Chevron, Exxon-Mobile, or Shell. These corporations do not have even a single fiber of morality. All of the violence and mayhem in the Delta has been caused by the capitalistic pigs.