Niger Delta Development Advocate and Chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Ayirimi Emami, has condemned the reported smashing of several pipelines of Chevron Nigeria Limited, CNL along the Olero-Dibi-Abiteye Fields/Flow stations in Warri North Local Government Area of Delta State.
The damaged pipelines, transport various petroleum products, such as natural gas and crude oil.
The Niger Delta Liberation Movement, had last Friday claimed responsibility for bursting the pipelines, measuring 6 inches, 8 inches, and 10 inches in diameter.
The group, in a syndicated press statement, stated that it carried out the operation at about 2:00 am, Friday November 22, describing the damage as the launch of ‘Operation CHEVRON DRAGNET’
Chief Emami, while reacting to the incident in a statement he personally signed and issued to newsmen described the action of the NDLM as unfortunate and unwarranted.
Chief Emami said there was no justifiable reason to burst the pipelines, saying the Itsekiri people have civil ways of addressing their grievance with Chevron Nigeria Limited as well as other International Oil and Gas companies operating in Itsekiri land.
While urging security agencies to fish out those responsible for bursting of the pipelines along the Olero – Dibi – Abiteye stations, Emami, stressed the need for security agencies to avert recurrence of the attack.
According to the Itsekiri leader, the President Bola Ahmed Tinubu administration, “is doing everything possible to increase the daily crude oil production in the country and every critical stakeholder in the Niger Delta as well as other parts of the country, should support the President’s resolve.”
