Showing posts with label Militancy in Niger Delta. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Militancy in Niger Delta. Show all posts

Friday, 23 September 2016

Ceasefire: Niger Delta Avengers Issues Warning To Nigerian Government, Insist Soyinka Is Their Negotiator

The leadership of the Niger Delta Avengers (NDA), a militant group behind incessant attacks on oil installations in Nigeria’s oil producing hub, has warned the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari to desist from negotiating with traditional rulers and other personalities in the area, describing those would-be negotiators as “vultures.” The NDA insisted that the government should instead enter into dialogue with a team co-led by Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka and Anthony Ani. 

In a statement issued today and signed by one Colonel Rightman Hudson Opukurowari, the NDA remarked that, in response to calls from Nigerians, the group had been observing a ceasefire since the third week of July 2016, adding that “spontaneous attacks on oil installations” were “politically motivated.”

The statement disclosed that, on August 16, 2016, “Central and Eastern Avengers was formed for easier administrative convenience.” Colonel Opukurowari added that the NDA on August 27, 2016 unveiled the names of members of its dialogue group and demanded an “immediate exhaustive commencement of forensic audit of all Federal Government Agencies and parastatals set up with the mission and vision of developing the region from 1999 to date.” According to the militant leader, the NDA’s insistence on an audit disenchanted “some nefarious, mischief makers of the region who had earlier approached [us] to influence us with money to coin the struggle to their favor on certain demands with Federal Government.”

He stated that an unnamed “sponsor of groups of vultures”was seeking to promote a group of negotiators from the Niger Delta who “neither represent us (NDA of the Central and Eastern Division), nor the people of the region but self-aggrandizement.”

The NDA’s statement wondered why “traditional rulers, leaders at all levels in the Niger Delta are all always excited and fight at all cost to dialogue on militant issues? Despite our several oppositions and rejections we keep seeing repeated resurgence of the vultures as dialogue experts in the likes of Chief E.K. Clarke, King Alfred Diete Spiff, Tony Uranta and the Ajumogobias, etc. We (NDA) know their sponsor—Niger Delta Looter King.”

The NDA urged the Buhari administration to enter into dialogue only with the militants’ team composed of “Mr. Ballantyne Agiri [and] headed by Dr. Anthony A. Ani and Professor Wole Soyinka.” 

Continued the statement: “We shall remain at our homes (creeks) and watch the orchestrated melodrama tagged Federal Government dialogue with leaders of the Niger Delta (organized by King Alfred Diete Spiff) to be chaired by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on 26th and 27th September, 2016.” It dismissed Mr. Diete Spiff as a “self-imposed misfit King of Twon Brass,” adding that his rule had caused communal clashes between Twon Brass and its neighboring communities in Brass local government area of Bayelsa State.

The NDA’s statement warned the Federal Government to call off the meeting scheduled for September 26 and 27 with the Diete Spiff team, adding that the government should enter into dialogue with the “right persons” or risk the end of peace and tranquility in the oil-producing zone. The NDA’s statement vowed that the Federal Government would face consequences if it did not heed the militants’ warning. 

The NDA concluded its statement by warning “the Niger Delta Vultures” that their “pay back days are at hand.”

Culled from: Saharareporters

Tuesday, 13 September 2016

Militants Blast Another Oil Pipeline In Delta State, South-South Nigeria

One of the recalcitrant Militant Groups, Niger Delta Greenland Justice Mandate, NDGJM, in the early hours of Tuesday, blew up the Afiesere-Iwhrenene major delivery line to UPS/UQCC, operated by Nigeria Petroleum Development Company, NDPC/Shorelines Petroleum in Ughelli North Local Government Area of Delta State. 

Thursday, 1 September 2016

Militants Bomb Agip Oil Pipeline In Imo, South-East Nigeria

Three months after launching its first attack, the Niger Delta Red Squad, RDRS, militant group operating in the oil producing communities of Ohaji/Egbema council area of Imo State, South-East, Nigeria claims it has blown another facility belonging to Agip Oil Company at Umuonei in Awara community.

Tuesday, 30 August 2016

Niger Delta Militants Blast Fresh Oil Facility In Delta State, Nigeria, Threaten More Attacks

Notwithstanding the negotiation, ceasefire by other militant groups and 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.

Monday, 25 July 2016

Pirates Kill Nigeria Security And Civil Defence Corps Officer in Bayelsa, South-South, Nigeria

The Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, has confirmed that daredevil pirates ambushed and killed one of its officers in Southern Ijaw Council Area of Bayelsa, South-South, Nigeria.