A militant group, the Niger Delta
Greenland Justice Mandate, on Monday said it would not join in the
ceasefire declared by other militant groups in the Niger Delta owing to
the alleged insincerity of the President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal
Government.
The militant group also alleged that
the current Federal Government was too corrupt to be trusted,
threatening that attacks on oil facilities would continue until the
government and oil firms operating in the region turn from their
‘oppressive tendencies’ against the people.
The spokesman for the militant group,
Aldo Agbalaja, in a statement issued on Monday asked the multinational
oil companies and the military “to watch out for the next big statement.
It shall shake your imaginations.”
The statement also condemned another
militant group, the Niger Delta Avengers, for being too quick to have
announced a ceasefire with the government.
The statement added, “The chickens seem
to be coming home to roost now. The truth is dawning on the blacklegs
that are working to short-change their people will always backfire. When
the Niger Delta Greenland Justice Mandate said we were out to engage
the oppressors to the last, some snickered and bluffed, their
indignation became most annoying when those pretenders called Avengers
gave life to our prediction and announced a ceasefire. Now they are all
coming back to the basics; falling back in line after seeing, first
hand, that we have been right all along about the Nigerian Federal
Government; it is a corrupt system that should never be trusted.
“However, we are using this medium to
warn the Nigerian Armed Forces to properly advise their leadership;
militarisation of our region can only lead to an avoidable armed
confrontation and if this happens, we swear by the gods and ancestors of
our land, we shall ensure it is a long and tedious campaign that the
Nigerian state will forever regret.”
The Niger Delta Greenland Justice
mandate further threatened to launch what it termed ‘Operation Hammurabi
Code’, adding, “Until we see a sincere and genuine step towards a just
and equitable mending of the injustices of all the years past done to
our people, this war shall persist and we can guarantee that they cannot
win this one, even if they get all the world’s arsenal assembled behind
them.
“Operation Crocodile Tears is the
mildest of what the world should expect from us, by the time we initiate
the phase II and get started with ‘Operation Hammurabi Code’ only God
knows what will then become of these plains called Nigeria.”
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