WARRI —NIGER Delta Avengers, the militant group which claimed
responsibility for blowing up the Forcados Terminal Pipeline in Delta
State, recently, has served notice of attacks on more oil installations
in the region until the Federal Government addresses its grievances.
The group vowed: “Shell Petroleum Development Company, SPDC,
Forcados terminal is our latest casualty. There are many more to
follow in the days and weeks ahead.”
The group, in a statement obtained in Warri, said that it was prepared
to reduce Nigeria’s daily oil production and supply to zero barrel if its
agitation was ignored.
“The same factor that brought about the Niger Delta arms struggle is
fast resurfacing as the Muhammadu Buhari-led administration is
poised to exterminate Niger Delta people for being benevolent enough
to allow the nation’s mono-economy thrive on our oil.
“We are being oppressed, pushed to the wall on various fronts, which
is why we have picked up the challenge to be the outlaws this
government will have to contend with till daily production of oil is
reduced to zero in the Niger Delta, so government can use the oil from
the North to run Nigeria’s mono-economy.
"We believe that Nigeria can practice true federalism where our
resources will be controlled by us and used for our own good. The
reverse is the case today, where the goose that lays the golden egg is
killed along with the egg,” they said.