Militants of the Niger Delta Avengers (NDA) have claimed responsibility for a bomb attack on an oil pipeline in the south of Nigeria, declaring an end to a ceasefire with the government agreed upon a month ago.

NDA spokesman Mudoch Agbinibo said in a statement on Saturday that the militant group had destroyed Bonny pipeline in Rivers State a day earlier as a “a wake-up call.” He also stated that peace negotiations with the government in Abuja had led nowhere.

Agbinibo accused the government of using intimidation and blackmail as tactics during talks with NDA representatives, saying authorities had created “shameful scenes obtainable in Nollywood acts,” a reference to Nigeria’s huge film industry.

“There has been no progress and no breakthrough,” he said, adding, however, that the NDA was “still in favor of the dialogue.”

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