Militants BlowUpPipelinesIn Delta

Fire incidenton the pipeline network of the Nigerian National PetroleumCorporation (NNPC) in Ijegun area of Lagos State.
MilitantsBlow Up PipelinesIn Delta
An Urhobo militant group, Urhobo Gbagbako, on Friday claimed responsibility for Thursday night’s bombing of the NPDC Oil pipelinesat Ighrenene, Afiesere and Ekiugbo communities inDelta State.
The group, which made the claims inan email sentto somereporters, said it is also planning to shut down all the oil fieldsin Urhobo and Isoko areas.
The email signed by the group’s s spokesperson, Priest Omodjuvwu, said the bombing of the Ekiugbo/Ighrenene/Afiesere was to draw attention to the neglect of ex-militantsof Urhobo extraction.
It said the Urhobo had been sidelinedin the pipelinesprotection contracts offered to ex-militantsfrom other ethnic groups and they now want to show that they too had the capacity to cause trouble if ignored.
The group said it had sent warning signals to the NPDC and the federal government on the pipeline surveillancecontracts, which had excluded the Urhobo.
Urhobo Gbagbako however, dissociated itselffrom media reports about a 14-day ultimatum given to the federal government and NPDC on the oil pipelinesurveillance contracts.
“We have now resumed attack on the NPDC pipeline facilitieson a massivescale, which scale of bombings shall be unprecedented,” the email said.
The group said the attacks will continue until the Urhobo got what rightly belonged to them.
It explained that Urhobo Gbagbako is a militia group of all ex-militants, youths, women and elders of Urhobo origin.