A new
militant group in Urhobo 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.
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.
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