An Urhobo militant group, Niger Delta Greenland Justice Movement,
NDGJM, in the early hours of today, blew up the Ogor-Oteri major delivery line,
operated by the Nigeria Petroleum Development Company and Shorelines
Petroleum in the state.
The group in a statement by its leader, “Gen” Aldo Agbalaja, in a statement,
claiming responsibility for the attack at about 3.00 hours, said it was executed
by its Uproot Team B, said the group was also launching “Operation Crocodile
Tears” since the military had launched “Operation Crocodile Smile” to
supposedly worsen the Niger Delta crisis.
It said: “Recent developments around our region, especially as it concerns the
issue of justice and our inalienable right to protect our heritage, have proven us
right all along. Now it has become clearer who is serious about getting justice
for our people and who has been using the name of the region and the destinies
of all our peoples to feather their nests, raising dusts merely to harass the
Nigerian state and the oil multinationals into parting with money.”
“Although some selfish machinery, merely put together to achieve some
pecuniary ends, has been parading in the name of the peoples of the Niger
Delta, the Niger Delta Greenland Justice Mandate will not be derailed on its
mission to getting justice for the people.”
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The group said those who want to join the self acclaimed leaders of the region
to make quick money in the arrangement they had put together were free to do
so, but it lacked confidence in the show they put together, calling it a pan Niger
Delta initiative.
It said those people could speak for Ijaw nation, but certainly not all the
nations in the region, adding: “When lines are blurred, justice is most likely to
be miscarried. If there shall be a negotiation, it must be seen and indeed, must
be in actual sense, be representing all the individual nations of the region
equally.”
The group added: “The drama that trailed the visit of some Ijaw royal fathers to
the Minister of State for Petroleum, Ibe Kachikwu, in Abuja recently is more
reason why equity must be a factor in setting up a body that will dialogue on
behalf of all the peoples of the Niger Delta.”
“If the said leader could not respect the royal fathers of his ethnic nation, if he
is lording his will over them, what chance do other nations have, which do not
have adequate representation?
“That said, the Niger Delta Greenland Justice Mandate will no longer sit quietly
watching the endless harassment of our people in various parts of the region by
the Nigerian military. We had once warned against the victimization and
harassment of defenseless people of the region, especially in the creeks, but
rather than heed, the Nigerian military has increased its presence and made life
more difficult for our people.
“They are now killing our people on the basis of mere suspicion, this cannot
continue,” it vowed.
Its words “With the launch of their ‘Operation Crocodile Smile’, the Niger Delta
Greenland Justice Mandate is also serving a notice on the commencement of
our ‘Operation Crocodile Tears.’ It shall from now on be an eye for an eye; for
every military atrocity carried out in the creeks and hinterland of the Niger
Delta, the Nigerian armed forces will have the Niger Delta Greenland Justice
Mandate to contend with.”
“To this end, we are alerting all those working in the UQCC/UPS
Erhomukokwarien in Ughelli, Eriemu Pigging Manifold in Agbarha, Otorogun Gas
Plant, Olomoro Flow Station, Warri Refinery, Port Harcourt Refinery, Eleme, OB-
OB and Obite gas plants in Omoku to evacuate because what is coming to those
facilities are beyond what anybody has seen before.
“We do not want innocent blood being spilled, therefore, we advise all indigenes
living in the vicinities of the facilities to relocate for the time being.
“The world should, however, note that the bloodbath that is about to commence
in our already beaten, battered, squeezed and impoverished homeland, the Niger
Delta. It is all the baby of the Nigerian government; they are the people, who
are in one breath preaching resolution through
dialogue and also breathing bullets and bombs on a troubled, but trusting
people.
“Hold the Nigerian President responsible for the genocide that his armed forces
is about to unleash on our people,” Agbalaja said.
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