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Leader Of Niger Delta Avengers Captured – Army

Nigeria Army special forces have arrested the leader of new militant group, Niger Delta Avengers, Vanguard is reporting.

According to the report, the militant leader was captured during a raid of Oporoza, the traditional headquarters of Gbaramatu Kingdom by Nigerian Army operatives in the early hours of Sunday.

The arrest is coming few days after President Muhammadu Buhari ordered the Nigerian Military to capture militants responsible for blowing up an oil facility belonging to Chevron Nigeria Limited.

An Army officer who spoke on condition of anonymity stated that “Members of Nigerian Army captured five members of Niger Delta Avengers, one of which is believed to be one of the leaders of the dreaded group. Following the bombing, we established a wide perimeter and initiated a high security search.

“The suspects were taken into the custody of the army in the area, but are yet to make statements or admit if they are members of the Niger Delta Avengers or otherwise. They have been relocated to the 19th Battalion, Nigerian Army, Koko, Warri North.”

The recent resurgence of attacks on oil facilities by militant groups have seen Nigeria’s output cut down to a 20-year-low, a Bloomberg report says.

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With no solution in sight to the problems that beset the delta’s creeks and mangrove swamps, production from onshore and shallow-water oil fields looks vulnerable. If the latest group of freedom fighters seeks to outdo its predecessors, then deep-water facilities may be at risk too.

It could be recalled that the dastardly activities of the Niger Delta Avengers forced Shell’s Forcados terminal to shut in about 250,000 barrels of daily exports. The militants also breahed an offshore Chevron facility in the 160,000 barrels per day Escravos system.

In April, ENI had to declare force majeure — letting it stop shipments without breaching contracts — on exports of its Brass River grade after a pipeline fire.

In its latest report, the IEA assessed the world’s need for OPEC crude this quarter at 31.9 million barrels a day, with Nigeria contributing 1.62 million to the group’s 32.76 million output in April. This a far cry from projected daily output captured in the just approved national budget.

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