Residents at Ikeinghenbiri community in
Southern Ijaw council, Bayelsa are fleeing the
area following a clash between rival armed groups
at an oilfield operated by Eni’s Nigerian subsidiary
Agip Oil Company (NAOC). A resident said Sunday
that the groups were struggling for control of the
Ogboinbiri-Tebidaba crude trunk line which
passed through the area. Mr. Ebidimo Joseph said
that residents were scared and were leaving to
neighbouring villages for cover.
BY SAHARAREPORTERS, NEW YORK
MAY 22, 2016
Residents at Ikeinghenbiri community in
Southern Ijaw council, Bayelsa are fleeing the
area following a clash between rival armed groups
at an oilfield operated by Eni’s Nigerian subsidiary
Agip Oil Company (NAOC).
A resident said Sunday that the groups were
struggling for control of the Ogboinbiri-Tebidaba
crude trunk line which passed through the area.
Mr. Ebidimo Joseph said that residents were
scared and were leaving to neighbouring villages
for cover.
“We understand it is a conflict between two
armed groups for the access to the crude
pipeline, one group claims to be working to
safeguard the pipeline and said the other group
are vandals; they have been shooting.
“The sound of the gunfire is scary, and there is no
sign of the Joint Task Force soldiers who are
supposed to be patrolling the area, we have not
seen any soldier,” Joseph said
According to Joseph, the pipeline was set ablaze
while the two groups engaged each other in the
gun battle adding that there was no way to
ascertain if there was any casualty yet.
He said that a thick ‘cloud of smoke’ had
enveloped the community and polluted the
atmosphere in the area.
Efforts to get comments from Col. Isa Ado,
Spokesman of the Joint military force deployed to
protect oil infrastructure in the Niger Delta were
futile as he declined to take calls to his mobile
phone.

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