Militants have reportedly blown up an oil pipeline belonging to Nigeria Petroleum Development Company, NPDC, and
Shorelines Petroleum Nigeria in Delta State. Daily post reports that blown up a pipeline is a major delivery line
for NPDC, and was blown up at 3.am on Tuesday, despite the ongoing military
drill in the Niger Delta region code-named, “Operation Crocodile Smile.”
A statement by Niger Delta Greenland
Justice Movement, NDGJM, the group’s leader, “Gen” Aldo Agbalaja, said
the attack was carried out by its Uproot Team B, adding that it was also
launching “Operation Crocodile Tears” in response to the military’s “Operation
Crocodile Smile.”
The
militant group also warned of an “impending bloodbath” in the Niger Delta
region, stressing that it can no longer “sit quietly” and watch its people
killed and harassed by the military.
NDGJM told indigenes
of the oil-rich region to hold President Muhammadu Buhari responsible for the
impending “bloodbath”. The statement reads in part
“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.
“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.”
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