PRESIDENT BUHARI DECLARES WAR ON NEW MILITANT GROUP

President Muhammadu Buhari
has given fresh orders for the
new militant group, the Niger
Delta Avengers to be hunted
down and destroyed.
. The new militant group had
been responsible for attacks on
oil installations, blowing up
Chevron’s platform linking
Warri and Kaduna refineries
on Friday and forcing the
evacuation of a Royal Dutch
Shell facility over the weekend.
According to Punch, the
president only gave the order
on Friday but it has only been
made public now.
The Niger Delta Avengers have
attack several targets across
the blighted region Chevron,
after suffering loss due to the
attack on the Okan offshore
production platform on
Wednesday bythe militants,
said it had lost 105,000 barrels
of oil production in three
days.According to AFP’s quote
of Chevron’s spokeswoman,
Isabel Ordonez, she said in a
statement that approximately
35,000 bpd of Chevron’s net
crude oil production in Nigeria
are impacted.“The President
gave special instruction to the
military, especially to the Chief
of Naval Staff, that this ugly
development of vandals in the
Niger Delta should end
immediately,”a presidential
aide General Rabe Abubaksaid.
confirmed the directive
handed down by the president
while giving an interview on
Saturday.“We have the order
from the presidentand we are
monitoring the activities of the
new group. All efforts will be
made to bring out those behind
it,”thegeneral said.“The
suspects who perpetrated the
first vandalism were
apprehended and paraded the
day before yesterday.