In a statement issued this morning, MEND claim to have taken out more pieplines belonging to Shell and Agip.
The incidents have not been confirmed at this time. See below for their e-mail in full.
From: Jomo Gbomo
Sent: 08 July 2009 07:19
Subject: Plague of Sabotage Continues…
“utterly destroy them…make no covenant with them, and show no mercy to them.”
– Moses
The plague of sabotage descended heavily on major Shell and Agip crude trunk lines in Bayelsa state at about 0200 and 0230 Hrs today, Wednesday, July 8, 2009.
The Agip pipeline which connects the Agip Brass terminal was sabotaged at Nembe creek while the Shell Nembe creek line was done at Asawo village, all in Bayelsa state.
For the JTF to claim it had secured the chemical tanker Sichem Peace when the vessel was allowed to go immediately after the arrest of six crew members is the height of deceit meant to bolster fading confidence by Abuja in spite of the billions of naira put into the impotent outfit.
The JTF has arrested two repentant armed youths who approached them to take advantage of the governments amnesty offer. We are learning that there are about eleven of such cases currently languishing in detention inside the JTF headquarters in Warri.
Considering its antecedent of being the judge and executioner, we wonder the fate of the repentant youths.
We now understand that the reason the JTF are holding the traditional monarch of Egbema kingdom is because he is suspected of providing “black magic” to militants. If proven to be true, this is the most ridiculous reason for an abduction we have ever heard.
Jomo Gbomo