Suspected Niger Delta militants in the early hours of Friday blew up another section of an NNPC gas trunkline behind salvation city near Ogbe-Ijoh in Warri South West Local Government Area of Delta State.
The attacked trunkline belongs to phase two of the Escravos-Lagos gas pipeline owned and operated by the Nigerian Gas Company Limited (NGC).
Although, details of the attack was still sketchy, it was suspected to have been carried out by insurgents, most likely the Niger Delta Avengers (NDA), which had claimed responsibility for earlier similar incident in the Warri creeks.
An official of the Delta State government who asked not to be named described the attack as a major blow to gas production and by implication, power generation in the country.
It was gathered that those behind the sabotage used dynamites and other dangerous weapons to carry out the attack at about 2:00am.
Confirming the incident, the Spokesman of the Ijaw Youths Congress (IYC), Eric Omare, who is from Ogbe-Ijoh, said his community people informed him of the incident.
“I got a call from the village this morning that there has been an explosion on a pipeline located behind Salvation City, I think it is the one that links Escravos to Warri and I’m not sure of the operators, but I think it will be either NNPC or NGC”, he said.
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