Militant group blow up NPDC crude oil pipeline in Delta
It will be recalled that despite mounting talks and the need
for it, the Nigerian military mobilised fully to the region, apparently flowing
from President Muhammadu Buhari’s comment in Kenya that the militants will get
Boko Haram treatment.
Leader of the group, “Gen” Aldo Agbalaja, in a statement, said
its Uproot Team B operatives carried out the attack about 3a.m., adding that it
had also launched “Operation Crocodile Tears,” to counter the “Operation Crocodile Smile” launched by the
Nigerian military.
Agbalaja 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.
“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 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.
“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 added.
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