*Launches “Operation Crocodile Tears”
*Serves notice on Warri, Port-Harcourt Refineries, Otorogun Gas Plant, others UGHELLI-
DESPITE the ongoing military “Operation Crocodile Smile” in the Niger
Delta region, 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.” . 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.
Source: Vanguard
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