BREAKING: Less than 48 hours after threat; Militants carry out deadly attack' See Details here

The Niger Delta Greenland Justice Mandate
has carried out its threat by blowing up oil
installations in the upland of the Niger Delta
region.

The destruction of the pipeline was carried
out on Wednesday, August 10 which is less
than 48 hours after the group issued a threat
to carry out its planned vandalism.
The Punch reports that the group claimed
responsibility for the attack and said it was
part of its “Operation Zero” which is aimed at
demolition of oil facilities.

The group had issued a deadly warning to
the president Muhammadu Buhari-led federal
government on Tuesday, August 9 that in a
few days, refineries in the region will be
destroyed.

In a statement signed by Gen. Aldo Agbalaja
who is the spokesperson of the group, he
urged oil workers in the region to evacuate
as the level of violence it will commit in the
coming days will be enormous.
Part of the statement it issued read:
“We have keenly watched developments in the
country in recent times, developments that
are most depressing, very much depicting the
marginalization and subjugation of the
hapless people of our region.


“We have thought very deeply about the
ongoing shenanigan and play-acting going on
between the federal government and some
self-styled ‘Niger Delta agitators’ and
thought if we fail to make our own statement
now, then there will be no future for the
larger Niger Delta region”.
Continuing in the statement, he said; “for the
avoidance of doubts, the Niger Delta
Greenland Justice Mandate is not in the mold
of the various criminal gangs that have so far
paraded themselves as fighting for the
interest of the people of the Niger Delta, but
who indeed have been engaged in fight for
personal enrichment.
“We are not one of them. We are out to tell
the world that there is a Niger Delta that is
made up of many tribes and tongues, the
people of whom have so far suffered both
local and national opprison

“We have come at this point to ensure that
our oppressors, being the federal government,
the state governments in the six core Niger
Delta states who have received billions of
dollars over the past years but have brought
little or no development to the region and the
so-called super-ethnic nations, who have
yielded to greed and wickedness and have
exposed the rest of us in the oil-rich, but
deeply impoverished region, to crippling
squalor”.

“Federal government and the oil multinational
companies have been making a very grave
mistake by equating the interest of the Ijaw
people as that of all the tribes of the region.
Indeed, this is a mistake that is about to take
a more devastating toll than has ever been
seen or experienced in the history of Nigeria.
“Any moment from now, we shall be making
a loud statement which we believe should be
loud enough for all to see and take seriously
and then afterwards state our demands.