Residents at Ikeinghenbiri community in Southern Ijaw council, Bayelsa are fleeing the area following a clash between rival armed groups at an oilfield operated by Eni’s Nigerian subsidiary Agip Oil Company (NAOC).

A resident said Sunday that the groups were struggling for control of the Ogboinbiri-Tebidaba crude trunk line which passed through the area.

Mr. Ebidimo Joseph said that residents were scared and were leaving to neighbouring villages for cover.

“We understand it is a conflict between two armed groups for the access to the crude pipeline, one group claims to be working to safeguard the pipeline and said the other group are vandals; they have been shooting.

“The sound of the gunfire is scary, and there is no sign of the Joint Task Force soldiers who are supposed to be patrolling the area, we have not seen any soldier,” Joseph said

According to Joseph, the pipeline was set ablaze while the two groups engaged each other in the gun battle adding that there was no way to ascertain if there was any casualty yet.

He said that a thick ‘cloud of smoke’ had enveloped the community and polluted the atmosphere in the area.

Efforts to get comments from Col. Isa Ado, Spokesman of the Joint military force deployed to protect oil infrastructure in the Niger Delta were futile as he declined to take calls to his mobile phone.
Col. Ado also did not reply to text messages requesting for comments


http://saharareporters.com/2016/05/22/residents-flee-rival-militants-attack-eni-oil-pipeline-bayelsa

Ewu n'ebe akwa
Kparanuma

Buhari is a certified failure. The country is now in chaos because of his parochial and stubborn attitude. No one should blame the militants, Buhari is to blame.

Buhari will now be having a little understanding about what it means to make someone's government ungovernable & to soak dogs and baboons in blood..

I pray they sustain this..

Who thought Nigerians that a groups could possess powers to make government un-governable..

The NDA learnt very well..

No thanks to Buhari and his Northern Oligarchs for teaching everyone evil.

things are getting out of hand!

Buhari's case is a case of “Pesin Come See Sh1t Hin Come Macham, Na Fvck Up..

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It's another ONE....DJ Khaleed
Buhari how market
Militant groups springing up every where and bombing any available crude oil or gas pipeline all cos of the divisive and triblaistic, ethnocentric gworo chewing, buruktutu drinking, and Economic assassin President called Buhari.
By the time Crude oil production in Nigeria drop to an all time low by June next month cos of militancy, which will now cause the Economy to experience full blown recession, cause electricity supply to drop to an all time low across the country, and cause millions of jobs loss n force business to shut down,which will also affect many APC zombies, then Buhari n his bad advisers with their APC Zombies supporters will now know that Nigeria is sittting on a key of Gun powder that is about to explode.
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make dem pipul kuku remain calm. niger delta avengers ar not blood suckers like dem boko. dem major target na oyel facilities n pipelines.

This is getting out of hand

The oil of the 5% will not flow to the benefit of the 97%.

These Lazy boys have started again

naija delta defense academy

the real NDA

karma is bad azzz nuca

I can't wait for another round of KABOOM!

Buhari, a little advise for you: the best way to reign in insurgency is to recognise one group, give it powers, negotiate with it, and let him keep the power as long as it annihilates all other insurgents. Take your pick: MASSOB, IPOD, NDA, MEND or another one you can even create yourself.

Any other move, one nigeria is a gonner.

Nigeria set to produce zero barrel of oil per day.

These boyz were not misbehaving, yet the Daura Dulllard had felt the need to threaten dem with genocide.


They have now started misbehaving. Buhari is clueless.

Do these people have elders that commands respect, they could listen to?

Blowing up pipelines is rendering the environment unsafe to inhabit.

No clean water or good soil for planting will exist in those areas.

No president or senator, including the senator representing twitter constituency, shall come and live of invest in that environment.

Note that previous bombings has only yielded a result of enriching a few(tompolo and the likes), and a few that were sent abroad for training.

Time to sit up and find another way to press home their demands. It should also be for the betterment of the whole area.

This is serious..

decatalyst:
Do this people have elders that commands respect, they could listen to?

Blowing up pipelines is rendering the environment unsafe to inhabit.

No clean water or good soil for planting will exist in those areas.

No president or senator, including the senator representing twitter constituency, shall come and live of invest in that environment.

Time to sit up and find another way to press home their demands.

The environment is already polluted due to decades of haphazard oil exploration and govt neglect.
Maybe, you should threaten them with something else. Oil pollution story is a bit stale already.

And the Jonathanians are ecstatic... now Nigeria is being made ungovernable for buhari, but the folly lies in the fact that blowing pipelines affects the entire citizens of Nigeria, not just some villagers in the north east.

The millitans be like,
Food dey my bakyard, directly or indirectly, I no fit chop from am, na some bufoon from the north come carry cutlery dey enjoy the food. Even federal government chop chop chop no remember to clean the floor and the dinning table. We go kuma pour the food troway with the pot.

Yes more like it... . Continue Buhari if it becomes too much declare a state of emergency and put an hausa man there

leadership is responsibility........ Why not blame the leader PMB....... In one year PMB is still not responsible for any failure...... Na wahoooooo for this kind foolishness

Just observing....Observation no be crime

First of all this people are fighting only for there personal interest and they are doing so because government paid the once that did this before..... If government negotiate what is the guarantee another group won't come out tomorrow? Asari to his share to build university outside the Niger delta, tompolo bought a private jet, ateke bought countless Estate in lagos and Abuja and so others.. .. Which of them built a hospital for there community
Niger Delta collects 13% from oil take from her land yet are we 13% more developed?? Where is the money going?? These are the questions people should ask
Supporting this guys is foolishness in it highest other

My thoughts tho

You are absolutely right @Vitalis

mrvitalis:
First of all this people are fighting only for there personal interest and they are doing so because government paid the once that did this before..... If government negotiate what is the guarantee another group won't come out tomorrow? Asari to his share to build university outside the Niger delta, tompolo bought a private jet, ateke bought countless Estate in lagos and Abuja and so others.. .. Which of them built a hospital for there community
Niger Delta collects 13% from oil take from her land yet are we 13% more developed?? Where is the money going?? These are the questions people should ask
Supporting this guys is foolishness in it highest other
My thoughts tho

on the other hand though, one wonders why the FG is finding it difficult to protect it's 'lifeline'

Too many rival gangs in the Niger Delta.

IrradiatoR:
You are absolutely right @Vitalis



on the other hand though, one wonders why the FG is finding it difficult to protect it's 'lifeline'

The truth is this oil is no longer the life line
Oil will contribute less than 1 trillion out of the 6 trillion
Ordinary 50 tax on current account will yeild 2.5 trillion... Just the court case preventing access to the found
The only thing we need oil to rebound is because of forex

Alfamann:
Buhari, a little advise for you: the best way to reign in insurgency is to recognise one group, give it powers, negotiate with it, and let him keep the power as long as it annihilates all other insurgents. Take your pick: MASSOB, IPOD, NDA, MEND or another one you can even create yourself.

Any other move, one nigeria is a gonner.

What is lost on you is that all the aforementioned groups are working for a common purpose in their own different ways. The end game is to cripple the Zoo.

The Zoo Must Fall!