MEND Claims Responsibility For Okrikarefinery Blast

The Movement for the Emancipation of the
Niger Delta (MEND) has taken responsibility
for yesterday’s sabotage attack on pipelines
of the Nigerian National Petroleum
Corporation (NNPC) refinery in Okrika, Rivers
State.
In a statement today, it said the attack was
line with the movement’s on-going ‘Hurricane
Exodus’, and was intended to bring down the
entire refining facility.
“This facility was infiltrated by a few of our
fighters with the aid of our internal agents
within the NNPC contrary to speculations that
the sabotage was carried out by “pipeline
vandals and oil thieves”, which is a very
convenient phrase used in shielding the truth
from the public,” it said, stressing that
thorough investigations will reveal that the
bomb fragments from the blast are the same
in the Warri Refinery explosion of October 22,
2013.
MEND further warned: “We will persist with
our attacks on the Nigerian oil industry due
to the inaction of President Goodluck
Jonathan who continues to rely on an
unsustainable and fraudulent Niger Delta
Amnesty programme which is only a guise to
line the pockets of Goodluck Jonathan, his
wife Patience, Jonathans cronies and
members of the Amnesty Committee whose
sudden wealth remains unchallenged by the
Nigerian media.”
It reiterated that the entire Amnesty process
is a fraud on the people of Nigeria who are
being promised peace in the Niger Delta, in
the absence of justice, adding that ‘Hurricane
Exodus’ is still on course.