BREAKING! Avengers Threatens To Blow Up Egina FPSO Within Days In New Year Message

Dreaded militant group, Niger Delta Avengers have threatened to blow up the Nigeria’s deep sea oil platforms within days including the Egina FPSO in a New Year Massage released on Wednesday.

The Egina floating production storage and offloading (FPSO), which departed South Korean shipbuilder Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) on a journey to Nigeria on Wednesday, October 3, last year, according to reports is expected to be deployed in the second half of 2018, after the remaining topside module integration and commissioning is completed.

Agency report says a portion of the topsides fabrication and integration is to be completed in Nigeria once the unit arrives at its destination in three months.

Nigeria’s Niger Delta militia group, in the message signed by its spokesman, ‘Maj.Gen’ Murdoch Agbinibo said it would launch attacks on the oil facility and other deep sea platform in the next few days.

BigPen Online recalls that Avengers had in 2016 reduced Nigeria’s crude production to its lowest ebbs, thus forcing the economy into recession.

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The group which threatened that this round of attacks will be the most deadly, said it will be targeting the deep sea operations of the multinationals which include Bonga Platform, Agbami, EA Field, Britania-U Field, Akpo Field; amongst others littered across the deep waters of the Niger Delta region.

“As for the Egina FPSO, we are advising the operators to let it stay where ever it is right now as we are tracking it’s movement. We mean it when we say they (the oil installations) shall dance to the sound of the fury of the Niger Delta Avengers”.

The group which had on the 3rd of November 2017, call off its ceasefire following pressure from leaders of the Niger Delta region, said “we promised to reactivate “operation red economy” but as usual some overzealous and over patriotic elders intervened and appealed as they have done twice before then for us to avail them some more time to attend to the demands of the Niger Delta as championed by the Niger Delta Avengers”.

Avengers say they are calling off the ceasefire because according to them, “we have not achieved any meaningful results despite the opportunities we have availed the Niger Delta elders, declaring that failure of the federal government to response is “either irresponsible or the Nigerian government is not sincere with them as it is their trade in stock”.

While promising a brutal attack, the group threatened that its attacks this time around would “shake the coffers of the failed Nigerian nation”, insisting, “our demand unambiguously is for the government to “Restructure This Country”.

“We wish to state in plain terms that anybody against restructuring is an enemy of this country and particularly an enemy of the Niger Delta Avengers; and we shall not rest until such enemies are defeated by the Niger Delta People who earnestly seek to control our own resources”.

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The group which is pushing for total control of oil wealth to Niger Delta region, however criticised the federal government for budgeting N1Billion Dollars from the excess crude account to fight Boko Haram in the North; whereas, “successive government acts blind to the very bold array of challenges our region from which this wealth is generated is facing”.

The group blamed the federal government military for targeting unarmed communities people and already sick and suffering people to unleash their mayhem whereas they treat Boko Haram extremist with kid gloves.

“Only a few days ago the Nigerian Army released 244 members of the murderous Boko Haram sect to Borno state government while thousands of innocent Niger Delta youths continue to suffer in various prisons across the country for no just cause.

“It is on the above premise that we are demanding the immediate release of all Niger Deltans Activists and Freedom Fighters that are held captive by the Nigeria Armed Forces.

“The extra judicial cold blooded murder of Kareowei and 20 members of his gang by the Nigerian Army after deceiving them with Amnesty offer is very unprofessional; yes they were common criminals who brought pain to our own people but going ahead to murder them after reaching an agreement with them and making them to surrendered to the army is a clear pointer to the insincerity of the Nigerian Government at handling issues that concern the Niger Delta; just like the Nigerian Government daily deceive the international community of how professional the multinationals are carrying out their operations and how vast they have developed our lands; when the reverse is actually the case on ground”.

Written by Joe Ogbodu

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