New militant group emerges, will destroy pipelines, unless…

The Federal Government cannot breathe a sigh of relief yet despite the decision to negotiate with the Niger Delta Avengers in a bid to stop the bombing of oil pipelines.

Another militant group from the region has reared its head with quite lofty demands.

The new group, on Wednesday called on the government to allow the $16 billion Export Processing Zone otherwise called Delta Gas City project begin operations as soon as possible in addition to yielding 60% of oil blocs to people of the Niger Delta region.

The militant group, Ultimate Warriors of Niger Delta urged the Federal Government to yield to its demands or the attack on oil and gas facilities across the Niger Delta would not cease.

Also in an ironic twist, the militant group demanded that the government give the contract of the protection of pipelines against vandals to them or it would continue to vandalise pipelines.

Giving the government a 2-week ultimatum to see to it that its demands are met for a ceasefire in the bombings, the militant group also directed that academic activities at Federal Maritime University established during the regime of former President Goodluck Jonathan be commenced.

Spokesperson of the group, Sibiri Taiowoh, in a statement made available to the press warned the Federal Government against failing to meet up to the group’s demands- which he reckons would warrant the total shutting down of vital key facilities including Chevron BOP, Okan Platform, MEREN Gas Gathering Compression Platform.

“We are also behind the recent pipeline bombing in the Niger Delta region and I can assure you we will not stop until the EPZ project and the Maritime University are totally completed and start operations.”

“We want to be the ones to be safe guarding oil pipeline in our area so as to create more jobs for our people. We would resist any attempt to give surveillance contracts of pipeline in our backyard to foreigners. We want the pipeline jobs to be given to our indigenous people.”

“We also want 60 per cent of the oil blocs to be allocated to the Niger Deltans just as the Federal Government has also allocated 80 per cent to those who are not from the oil producing area and just as 50 per cent of the resource was used to develop the non-oil area when we were producing cocoa and groundnut as main economic resources, the same 50 percent should be use to develop the Niger Delta region because we are the ones suffering the brunt of oil pollution and degradation in the region”, it further added.

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