MEND Claims Responsibility For Attack on NNPC Refinery in Rivers State
The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) has claimed responsibility for Sunday’s attack on pipelines of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) refinery in Okrika, Rivers State. In a statement issued yesterday, the group said the attack was in line with the ongoing movement, ‘Hurricane Exodus’, and was intended to bring down the entire refining facility in the local government. “ This facility was infiltrated by a few of our fighters with the aid of our internal agents within the NNPC contrary to speculations that the