‘CHEVRON DRAGNET’ is launched by MOVEMENT, damaging several pipelines.

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Early today, November 22, 2024, the Niger Delta Liberation Movement (NDLM), commonly known as MOVEMENT, began operations under the code name “CHEVRON DRAGNET,” bursting several pipelines along the Olero-Debi-Abiteye fields/flow stations at around 2:00 am. The blast pipelines, which are 6 inches, 8 inches, and 10 inches in diameter, transport various petroleum products, such as natural gas and crude.

The secretary, Mr. Emmanuel Tagbanaraewumi, informed reporters of this in a press release, saying, “It can be recalled several host communities and organizations from the Itsekiri nation extraction had called upon Chevron Nigeria Limited (CNL) to make available their employment quota in the firm’s ongoing recruitment scheme but to no avail.” 

“We had earlier made demands for the unconditional conversion of VTP5/OTP2 and VTP6 amongst others and these demands were not attended to.”

“The MOVEMENT is bringing to the notice of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited and Chevron in particular that we are in support of these calls and therefore announce the launch of an operation codename CHEVRON DRAGNET”.

“The operations code name CHEVRON DRAGNET has become unavoidable because Chevron had refused to listen to her host communities and organizations from the Itsekiri extraction calling for the implementation of local content law and allocate to her the rightful quarter of the ongoing Chevron Nigeria Limited recruitment by a consulting firm known as dragnet”.

The rapidly radicalizing MOVEMENT has claimed responsibility for several attacks against oil facilities in the Warri area since July 2023. Their “biggest feast” was the Debi to Olero Gas Line Blast at Junction 19 on June 18, 2024.

Through the disruption of all oil exploration activity, the MOVEMENT secretary pledged to communicate with Chevron in their own language. He also promised that this multiple bast is the start of the operations code-named CHEVRON DRAGNET, but he did not provide an ultimatum or a timeline for the operations, as was evident in their previous press briefing.

“As long Chevron decide to keep mute and play unholy politics with the request from the host communities and organizations of the Itsekiri nation, we vow to support and back these calls with the language Chevron will understand. We won’t give an ultimatum as we had done in the past as the ‘CHEVRON REGNET’ operations will not have a timeframe.

Nevertheless, we promise a shocker as we vow to continue to hit facilities used for crude oil exploration activities in the whole of Warri areas till Chevron does the needful as this is just the beginning of operation CHEVRON DRAGNET”.

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