NIGER DELTA AVENGERS THREATEN ‘BLOODY’ ATTACKS AS BUHARI PLANS VISIT

Nigeria’s Buhari Plans Talks With Delta Leaders Amid Increasing Pipeline Attacks A militant group in the Niger Delta has issued a renewed threat to international oil companies as Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari reportedly plans a visit to the troubled region. The Niger Delta Avengers (NDA), which has carried out a series of crippling attacks on oil pipelines and facilities in the region, issued a statement on Monday warning companies based in the region—including Dutch giants Shell and U.S. firm Chevron—that “it’s going to be bloody this time around.” “Your facilities and personnel will bear the brunt of our fury, which shall fall upon you like a whirling wind,” said the statement, attributed to NDA spokesman Mudoch Agbinibo. Buhari vowed on Sunday that he was ready to engage with leaders in the region, which also saw a sustained period of militancy in the mid-2000s led by armed groups protesting what they saw as the unfair distribution of Nigeria’s oil wealth. The Nigerian president said that the recent attacks would not distract his government and that security forces would “apprehend the perpetrators and their sponsors and bring them to justice.” Buhari is planning to visit Ogoniland, a region in the Niger Delta damaged by years of oil spills, [...]
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