Police say
oil militants have blown up a state-owned gas pipeline in the first such attack
reported in Nigeria’s southwest.
Oil
militants have slashed Nigerian oil production with attacks this year on
installations in the south. They seek a greater share of profits for residents
who have lost livelihoods to industry pollution that has destroyed agriculture
and fishing grounds.
Deputy
Superintendent Olumuyiwa Adejobi, the police spokesman for Ogun state, told The
Associated Press on Thursday that “hoodlums” pretending to carry out repairs
planted dynamite that blew up a major gas pipeline of the Nigerian National
Petroleum Corp. overnight.
Disruptions
to gas used to generate power have compounded Nigeria’s chronic electricity
shortages.
No group
immediately claimed the attack. The government is trying to negotiate with the
oil militants.
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