MEND Warns Oil Workers, Says They're Not Safe

MEND Warns Oil Workers, Says They're Not Safe

MOVEMENT for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), an insurgent network, has again called on foreign oil and gas workers to leave the Niger Delta, warning that they will strike anytime without further notice.

While promising that they will re-visit the Trans-Ramos pipeline which they attacked in June, 2009 after it has been repaired, as well as other oil facilities around the volatile region in the weeks to come, the insurgents also re-stated their warning to oil companies regarding their staff who they are putting in ''harm's way by their continued presence on our soi'l''l.

Spokesperson for the group, Jomo Gbomo, in a statement said that on Tuesday, February 2, 2010, the military Joint Task Force (JTF, a special security outfit,) in collaboration with the Anglo-Dutch oil and gas major, Shell, denied an alleged sabotage on the oil company's Trans- Ramos pipeline.

Gbomo claimed that the incident was an act of sabotage, pointing out it was an attempt to steal crude oil.
''No bunkerer breaches pipelines with explosives as was done in this attack'', MEND said.

According to them, ''the JTF should justify the waste of public funds in the acquisition of worthless military hardware, by doing a better job at securing oil facilities and stop further wasting its resources on the dissemination of propaganda''.

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