Militant threatened me on phone – Kachikwu

Minister of State for Petroleum Resources and Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Group Managing Director, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, yesterday, revealed how he received threats from a Niger Delta militant. Kachikwu, who was one of the ministers that attended the Federal
Government’s town hall meeting in Kaduna State, lamented the effect of attacks on oil installations. He described the attacks as a drain on the country’s resources, adding that the government was on top of the situation. Pipeline surveillance contractors behind renewed bombings —Activist Meanwhile, there are indications that some pipeline surveillance contractors were behind the recent bombing of oil installations in Delta State, which a militant group, Niger Delta Avengers, had claimed responsibility for. A Niger Delta activist confided in Vanguard that some leaders of the affected communities know the people carrying out the bombings, but were afraid to speak out because of the repercussion.