{"id":11233,"date":"2016-08-30T18:02:54","date_gmt":"2016-08-30T18:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=11233"},"modified":"2016-08-30T18:02:54","modified_gmt":"2016-08-30T18:02:54","slug":"panic-in-delta-oil-producing-communities-as-urhobo-militant-bombs-npdc-facilities-threatens-more-actions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=11233","title":{"rendered":"Panic in Delta oil producing communities as Urhobo Militant bombs NPDC facilities, threatens more actions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><code><script src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\" async=\"\"><\/script><br \/>\n <!-- www.deltanewsroom.com --><br \/>\n <ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-2163942495525027\" data-ad-slot=\"1411897411\" data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\/\/ <![CDATA[\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/code><\/p>\n<p><code><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alternativeadvert.com\/show.php?z=30&amp;pl=10208&amp;ad_type=59&amp;rl=180\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/code><\/p>\n<p>An Urhobo militant group, Niger Delta Greenland Justice Movement,<br \/>\nNDGJM, in the early hours of today, blew up the Ogor-Oteri major delivery line,<br \/>\noperated by the Nigeria Petroleum Development Company and Shorelines<br \/>\nPetroleum in the state.<br \/>\nThe group in a statement by its leader, \u201cGen\u201d Aldo Agbalaja, in a statement,<br \/>\nclaiming responsibility for the attack at about 3.00 hours, said it was executed<br \/>\nby its Uproot Team B, said the group was also launching \u201cOperation Crocodile<br \/>\nTears\u201d since the military had launched \u201cOperation Crocodile Smile\u201d to<br \/>\nsupposedly worsen the Niger Delta crisis.<br \/>\nIt said: \u201cRecent developments around our region, especially as it concerns the<br \/>\nissue of justice and our inalienable right to protect our heritage, have proven us<br \/>\nright all along. Now it has become clearer who is serious about getting justice<br \/>\nfor our people and who has been using the name of the region and the destinies<br \/>\nof all our peoples to feather their nests, raising dusts merely to harass the<br \/>\nNigerian state and the oil multinationals into parting with money.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cAlthough some selfish machinery, merely put together to achieve some<br \/>\npecuniary ends, has been parading in the name of the peoples of the Niger<br \/>\nDelta, the Niger Delta Greenland Justice Mandate will not be derailed on its<br \/>\nmission to getting justice for the people.\u201d<br \/>\n.<br \/>\nThe group said those who want to join the self acclaimed leaders of the region<br \/>\nto make quick money in the arrangement they had put together were free to do<br \/>\nso, but it lacked confidence in the show they put together, calling it a pan Niger<br \/>\nDelta initiative.<br \/>\nIt said those people could speak for Ijaw nation, but certainly not all the<br \/>\nnations in the region, adding: \u201cWhen lines are blurred, justice is most likely to<br \/>\nbe miscarried. If there shall be a negotiation, it must be seen and indeed, must<br \/>\nbe in actual sense, be representing all the individual nations of the region<br \/>\nequally.\u201d<br \/>\nThe group added: \u201cThe drama that trailed the visit of some Ijaw royal fathers to<br \/>\nthe Minister of State for Petroleum, Ibe Kachikwu, in Abuja recently is more<br \/>\nreason why equity must be a factor in setting up a body that will dialogue on<br \/>\nbehalf of all the peoples of the Niger Delta.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cIf the said leader could not respect the royal fathers of his ethnic nation, if he<br \/>\nis lording his will over them, what chance do other nations have, which do not<br \/>\nhave adequate representation?<\/p>\n<p><code><script src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\" async=\"\"><\/script><br \/>\n <!-- www.deltanewsroom.com --><br \/>\n <ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-2163942495525027\" data-ad-slot=\"1411897411\" data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\/\/ <![CDATA[\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/code><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat said, the Niger Delta Greenland Justice Mandate will no longer sit quietly<br \/>\nwatching the endless harassment of our people in various parts of the region by<br \/>\nthe Nigerian military. We had once warned against the victimization and<br \/>\nharassment of defenseless people of the region, especially in the creeks, but<br \/>\nrather than heed, the Nigerian military has increased its presence and made life<br \/>\nmore difficult for our people.<br \/>\n\u201cThey are now killing our people on the basis of mere suspicion, this cannot<br \/>\ncontinue,\u201d it vowed.<br \/>\nIts words \u201cWith the launch of their \u2018Operation Crocodile Smile&#8217;, the Niger Delta<br \/>\nGreenland Justice Mandate is also serving a notice on the commencement of<br \/>\nour \u2018Operation Crocodile Tears.\u2019 It shall from now on be an eye for an eye; for<br \/>\nevery military atrocity carried out in the creeks and hinterland of the Niger<br \/>\nDelta, the Nigerian armed forces will have the Niger Delta Greenland Justice<br \/>\nMandate to contend with.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cTo this end, we are alerting all those working in the UQCC\/UPS<br \/>\nErhomukokwarien in Ughelli, Eriemu Pigging Manifold in Agbarha, Otorogun Gas<br \/>\nPlant, Olomoro Flow Station, Warri Refinery, Port Harcourt Refinery, Eleme, OB-<br \/>\nOB and Obite gas plants in Omoku to evacuate because what is coming to those<br \/>\nfacilities are beyond what anybody has seen before.<a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Avengers.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9856\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9856\" src=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Avengers-300x186.jpg\" alt=\"Avengers\" width=\"300\" height=\"186\" srcset=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Avengers-300x186.jpg 300w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Avengers-128x80.jpg 128w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Avengers.jpg 630w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n\u201cWe do not want innocent blood being spilled, therefore, we advise all indigenes<br \/>\nliving in the vicinities of the facilities to relocate for the time being.<br \/>\n\u201cThe world should, however, note that the bloodbath that is about to commence<br \/>\nin our already beaten, battered, squeezed and impoverished homeland, the Niger<br \/>\nDelta. It is all the baby of the Nigerian government; they are the people, who<br \/>\nare in one breath preaching resolution through<br \/>\ndialogue and also breathing bullets and bombs on a troubled, but trusting<br \/>\npeople.<br \/>\n\u201cHold the Nigerian President responsible for the genocide that his armed forces<br \/>\nis about to unleash on our people,\u201d Agbalaja said.<\/p>\n<p>VANGUARD<\/p>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\" async=\"\"><\/script><br \/>\n <!-- www.deltanewsroom.com --><br \/>\n <ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-2163942495525027\" data-ad-slot=\"1411897411\" data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\/\/ <![CDATA[\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alternativeadvert.com\/show.php?z=30&amp;pl=10208&amp;ad_type=59&amp;rl=180\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. 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