The Trans-Ramos pipeline was sabotaged last Saturday by unknown persons forcing the Anglo-dutch oil giant to shut down three flow stations around the area in Bayelsa and Delta states.

MEND had denied any direct link to the incident. But irked by the response of the Joint Military Task Force (JTF) and official of Shell to the sabotage, MEND in a statement by its spokesman Gbono Yomoon Tuesday night said no bunkerer would sabotage pipeline with explosive.
It therefore declared that it would revisit the Trans-Romos pipeline as well as other oil facilities in weeks to come.

The militant group was hard on the JTF as it criticized the security outfit of incompetence in securing oil facilities in the region, adding that it was just wasting public funds.

It restated its earlier warning to oil companies on the safety of their staff, noting that their continue presence on the Niger Delta soil was dangerous.
In a statement read by the military Joint Task Force (JTF) in collaboration with Shell they denied the attack on the Trans-Ramos pipeline as an act of sabotage, claiming it was an attempt to steal crude oil.
“The (JTF) should justify the waste of public funds in the agitation of worthless military hardware, by doing a better job at securing oil facilities and stop further wastage of its resources on the dissemination of propaganda,” it stated.
 

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