Militants in the Niger Delta, under the Joint Revolutionary Council (JRC), have claimed to have destroyed a major pipeline in Nembe area of Bayelsa State.
The group claimed that its action was in response to the Supreme Court�s refusal to grant bail to the detained leader of the Niger Delta Peoples Volunteers Force (NDPVF), Alhaji Mujaheed Dokubo-Asari.
In a statement sent online to the Nigerian Tribune in Port Harcourt on Tuesday by the spokesperson of the JRC, Cynthia Whyte, the pipeline �transports crude oil from the Nembe Field, Ekulama 1, Ekulama 2, Belema and Soku�.
The group, however, did not mention the exact position where they causd the destruction or the companies directly affected by its action.
It warned that more of such attacks were underway, especially as feelers had revealed that there were plans to try Dokubo-Asari in absentia.
�In the early hours of Sunday, June 10, at about 1.30 a.m., fighters of the Joint Revolutionary Council (JRC), led by Colonel Umar Suku Amachree, attacked and successfully sabotaged a major pipeline which transports crude oil from the Nembe field, Ekulama 1, Ekulama 2, Belema and Soku.
�This attack was carried out using cluster bombs, which were being deployed for the first time in the Niger Delta.
�This attack is in direct response to the insane and infamous ruling by the Supreme Court to deny our patriotic and esteemed leader, Alhaji Mujahid Dokubo-Asari, bail and access to a speedy free and fair trial,� the group said.