In Niger, the FPL, the Patriotic Front for Liberation, led by Mahmoud Sallah, carried out its threat. On the night of Tabaski in Niger, he sent a commando into the Niger desert to blow up the pipeline that evacuates crude oil to the port of Cotonou. The FPL rebels had threatened to blow up this pipeline and the refining plant if their demands were not met, namely a return to constitutional order after last July’s coup.
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A video of the sabotage is playing in a loop on social networks. In a press release, made public yesterday Monday June 17, the Patriotic Front for the Liberation claimed responsibility for the attack. According to its president, the FPL put a major section of the pipeline out of action as a first warning to the ruling junta in Niger.
In the same press release, the rebel movement once again calls on the Chinese oil company WAPCO (a subsidiary of the China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) – China’s national oil company) to cancel the $400 million loan granted to the junta without which, he threatens, all oil installations will be paralyzed.
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The FPL also advises all users who supply oil sites to avoid the main roads in the area.
The Patriotic Front for Liberation had claimed on May 14 the attack on a military position in Séguédine, in the north of the country, not far from the Libyan border. Several soldiers had been killed and equipment destroyed.
Since then, the FPL rebels have increased their warnings against the military authorities. They now say they no longer accept that young Toubous and young Arabs are chased out of the refining factory…
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