Militants shift attack to Bayelsa, bomb Agip gas pipeline; demand release of Kanu, Dasuki

...Demand release of Nnamdi Kanu, Dasuki,
defreeze of Tompolo’s bank accounts
YENAGOA- A new militant group, Red Egbesu
Water Lions, has surfaced in the Niger Delta
region, just as suspected militants, Tuesday
night, blew up the Sagbama-Tuomo gas line,
belonging to Nigerian Agip Oil Company,
NAOC, at Egbembiri, Southern Ijaw local
government area of Bayelsa State .
A security source, who confirmed the
explosion, said: “Egbembiri is a border town
between Bayelsa and Delta states. They
destroyed the Ayama section of the
Ogboinbiri-Tuomo gas pipeline with
dynamites at about 9.00 pm on Tuesday. That
line was earlier repaired, last week and again
vandalized.”
“We, however, suspect that dispute over the
surveillance contract led to the attack. The
Agip pipeline links major oil facilities in Delta
and Bayelsa States,” he added.
The new militant group in a statement by its
Creek Network Coordinator, “General”
Torunanawei Latei, said it was teaming up
with the Niger Delta Avengers and Indigenous
People of Biafra, IPOB.
“It issued the Federal Government a seven-
day ultimatum to release Nnamdi Kanu, former
National Security Adviser, NSA, Sambo Dasuki
and direct EFCC to defreeze the bank accounts
of ex-militant leader, Government Ekpemupol,
alias Tompolo,
Threatening to shut down all oil exploration
activities in the Niger Delta at the expiration of
the ultimatum, the group also demanded
“unconditional immediate payment to victims
of the Bonga Oil Spill and Chevron gas
explosion in Koluama, Bayelsa state.”
"It is extremely important to note that the
engine room of the national interest is the
executive obedience to court orders,
protection and preservation of citizens’
constitutional liberties. Justification of
executive disobedience to court orders as a
protection of national interest is abominable.
“This is a deliberate ploy to bend the law and
suspend the 1999 Constitution. We ask, does
President Muhammadu Buhari have any legal
capacity to declare anyone as a criminal?
Disobedience to court orders is an act of
executive rascality in the country," the group
added.