A group of Niger Delta militants, known as the Isourhobo Bombers, has suspended its planned attack on oil and gas pipelines in Urhobo and Isoko communities in Delta State.
Led by Titus Deadman, the group had opposed the pipeline security surveillance contracts of OML 30 and OML34 which were awarded to Zane Energy owned by Jimmy Omo-Agege, a younger brother to the Delta senator, Ovie Omo-Agege.
The group had given the Federal Government a seven-day to hand over the contract to the Mayor of Urhoboland, Eshanekpe Israel, a.k.a Akpodoro, who they said was entitled to it.
But in a statement by Deadman on Friday, he said the group had decided to embrace negotiation and suspend its planned attack due to the intervention of the Interim Coordinator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme, Barry Ndiomu, the Riverine Peace Initiative in the Niger Delta, and the Urhobo Progressive Union.
