Suspected militants in the early hours of
Friday blew up another gas pipeline being
operated by the Nigerian Petroleum
Development Company (NPDC) at Owhrode
and Orhuwhorun in Udu Local Government
Area of Delta State, ThisDay reports.
The burst pipeline supplies gas to the
defunct Delta Steel Company (DSC) at
Aladja in Orhuwhorun community in Udu
Local Government Area. The incident took
place barely a few hours to the
commencement of a stakeholders’ meeting
organised by elders and leaders of the
various ethnic nationalities in the region
held in Warri.
Security sources disclosed that about two
pipelines operated by the Nigerian
Petroleum Development Company were
affected in the incident which occurred
about 2am. A new militant group, Niger
Delta Greenland Justice Mandate, sources
said, was behind the attack.
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