The attack occurred about 12:30a.m. The vandalised pipeline along the Azuzuama– Ikienghenbiri axis of the trunk line conveys crude oil from NAOC flow station at Tebidaba to Brass. The latest in the line of attacks on oil facilities in the Niger Delta was said to have been executed by some armed youths within the community. Sources in the community hinted that a supremacy war between rival pipeline contractors over surveillance contract led to the attack on the pipeline.
Operatives of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), who visited the area shortly after the attack, were said to have arrested one of the suspects. The suspect was shot in the leg. The state commandant, NSCDC, Mr. Desmond Agu, said one of the militants, identified as Peregbakumo was arrested through the assistance of the community leaders.
“A gang of armed youths vandalised pipeline along Azuzuama axis of the Tebidaba-Brass pipeline with dynamite and ignited fire on the line,” he said. Agu said his agency an emergency meeting of senior officers of the command and ordered them to secure all pipelines, oil installations and other critical national assets in the state. He stated that the facility attacked by the militants was a pipeline along Azuzuama area of the Tebidaba-Brass trunk line.
He said: “Through community help, we were able to arrest one of the suspects and to identify some of the fleeing suspects. There was a lot of community collaboration and we are grateful to the community because they don’t like what the armed youths are doing.”
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