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Tuesday, April 7, 2015
The violence that has been missing from Nigeria’s Niger Delta for some time reemerged on April 3 when gunmen opened fire killing nine people. The country’s oil industry also suffered when militants blew up a gas pipeline; this could be the first salvo fired in the South’s response to Goodluck Jonathan losing the recent presidential election.
The town of Obrikom and the nearby village of Obor in Rivers state was the site of the shooting spree according to police. The house of a parliamentary opposition candidate, Vincent Ogbagu of Buhari’s APC, was set on fire.
“Some unknown armed men invaded the Obrikom and Obor communities … killing nine, injuring two persons,” Rivers state police spokesman Ahmed Mohammad said April 4.
The pipeline explosion took place in Delta state in the early hours April 3. Militants from the Urhobo ethnic minority tribe took credit for the explosion.
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