{"id":11196,"date":"2016-08-28T20:25:25","date_gmt":"2016-08-28T20:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=11196"},"modified":"2016-08-28T20:25:25","modified_gmt":"2016-08-28T20:25:25","slug":"militants-bomb-agip-facility-in-imo-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=11196","title":{"rendered":"Militants bomb Agip facility in Imo State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><code><script src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\" async=\"\"><\/script><br \/>\n <!-- www.deltanewsroom.com --><br \/>\n <ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-2163942495525027\" data-ad-slot=\"1411897411\" data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\/\/ <![CDATA[\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/code><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alternativeadvert.com\/show.php?z=30&amp;pl=10118&amp;ad_type=59&amp;rl=180\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The militant group, Niger Delta Red Squad, operating in the Ohaji-Egbema axis of Imo State has bombed an Agip Petroleum pipeline at Uzo-Oru Ikwerede in Awarra community of Ohaji-Egbema council area of Imo state.<\/p>\n<p>Posting the attack on their Facebook wall yesterday, the group warned Agip personnel to keep away from the pipeline as anybody found within the area would be beheaded.<\/p>\n<p>The group also threatened to attack Governor Rochas Okorocha\u2019s Ogboko village if government eventually deploys any military taskforce to their community which they claim is relatively peaceful.<\/p>\n<p>According to the post, the group said that their community, particularly the Awarra Court area, has nothing to show for the operations of Agip, SPDC and other oil companies in their community since the creation of Imo State.<\/p>\n<p>It read in part: \u201cWe have crude oil, gas, palm oil, rubber estate, which we use to put food in the basket of Imo State, yet we don\u2019t benefit anything from Imo State or the oil companies in our community. We have seen enough marginalization and it has to be stopped.\u201d<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Egbesu-Fraternity.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10834\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10834\" src=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Egbesu-Fraternity-300x188.jpg\" alt=\"Egbesu-Fraternity\" width=\"300\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Egbesu-Fraternity-300x188.jpg 300w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Egbesu-Fraternity-128x80.jpg 128w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Egbesu-Fraternity.jpg 460w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Continuing, the group said, \u201cTo Imo State government and their security agencies, we ask you to give our people what rightfully belong to them. You think the best thing you can do is to plan on how to deploy security men to our area. No problem, Rochas Okorocha, we are assuring you that no security agent will come to any part of Awarra and go without being beheaded\u201d.<\/div>\n<p>The group averred that there is no crisis in their community, warning that there will be no peace for anybody that brings crisis to their community.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince you don\u2019t want our parents to have peace, your own people will not have peace and we will start it from Ideato; we will turn their children to orphans and their parents to widows and widowers,\u201d the group said.<\/p>\n<p>When contacted, the Imo State Commissioner for Information, Tourism and Public Utilities, Dr. Vitalis Orikeze Ajumbe, said that the state government is not aware of the said incident.<\/p>\n<p>He said, \u201cThe information has not reached us. It is not true. That\u2019s the government position on it. We don\u2019t have the security report of such incident. Until we get a security report on it, it does not exist.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>today.ng<\/p>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\" async=\"\"><\/script><br \/>\n <!-- www.deltanewsroom.com --><br \/>\n <ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-2163942495525027\" data-ad-slot=\"1411897411\" data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\/\/ <![CDATA[\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n<p><code><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alternativeadvert.com\/show.php?z=30&amp;pl=10118&amp;ad_type=59&amp;rl=180\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/code><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The militant group, Niger Delta Red Squad, operating in the Ohaji-Egbema axis of Imo State has bombed an Agip Petroleum pipeline at Uzo-Oru Ikwerede in Awarra community of Ohaji-Egbema council area of Imo state. 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