An Urhobo militant group known as the Niger
Delta Greenland Justice Movement, NDGJM, has
blown up the Ogor-Oteri major delivery line
operated by the Nigeria Petroleum Development
Company and Shorelines Petroleum in the state.
Important:
The group in a statement released and signed by
its leader, “Gen” Aldo Agbalaja, said they carried
out the attack on the oil facility at about 3am.
The group said they will also be launching
“Operation Crocodile Tears” since the military
had launched “Operation Crocodile Smile” to
supposedly worsen the Niger Delta crisis. Read
part of their statement beneath.
“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, sq££zed 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,”the
statement read...
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