pipeline: Demand release of Kanu
Monday, 22 February 2016
Shell admits Nnamdi Kanu's detention reason for Forcados
pipeline explosion
Militants sympathetic to ipob leader blew up Forcados oil
pipeline: Demand release of Kanu
Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Limited
(SPDC) has declared force majeure on Forcados liftings
effective 3 pm Nigerian time February 21.
According to a statement signed by spokesperson of She'll,
Bamidele Odugbesan, the development followed the
disruption in production caused by the spill on the Forcados
Terminal subsea crude export pipeline.
The statement said: "SPDC is intensifying efforts on
containment and oil recovery from the February 14, 2016
spill, while also finalising repair plans."
It will be recalled that a militant group sympathetic to the
detained leader of Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB,
Nnamdi Kanu, which called itself Niger Delta Avengers (NDA)
had blew up the Forcados export terminal as part of the
pressure to get the federal government to release Mr Kanu.
The group claimed that the had sympathisers from the
North, East and Western parts of the Nigeria.
Mr Kanu is facing charge of Treason before a Federal High
Court sitting in Abuja, slammed on him by the Directorate of
Secret Service (DSS) on account of alleged activities of his
group which calls for the secession of the old eastern part
of Nigeria.
His arrest and detention had sparked weeks of streets by his
supporters mainly of Igbo speaking extraction in places made
up of old eastern state.
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