There was relief in the Niger Delta
region on Wednesday, June 8, 2016 following the failure of the new Niger
Delta group, Joint Niger Delta Liberation Force, JNDLF, to unleash six missiles on the country’s critical assets, including military hardware in the region.
Many respondents told ThisDay
that though the group was little known, the threats could not be
dismissed with a wave of the hand since several other groups like that
had kept their vows in the past.
Aside from threatening to bomb the
Presidential Villa, the Department of State Services, Central Bank of
Nigeria, the Police Headquarters and the Defence Headquarters, the group
had also vowed to attack all the assets of the Joint Task Force in the
region.
‘’Note: we are going to destroy the ones
(warships and fighter jets) they have deployed to Escravos, Forcados in
Delta State; Bonga oil field, Agbami offshore and Brass in Bayelsa.
‘’Also, Bonny in Rivers; Qua Iboe
Terminal in Akwa Ibom State, and Opuekeba in Ondo state if they
(military) fail to remove them before time. Our crack team has taken
inventory of their equipment’’, the group had threatened.
It was learnt that while there was no
serious public security response to the vow to bomb the facilities,
residents in the area took several precautions, including staying
indoors.
‘’There was serious apprehension in the
region concerning the threats. In fact, some teachers asked some
students not to come to school tuesday.
‘’In my area, Harbour Road, Yenagoa,
many children did not go to school. You needed to check the Free Readers
Association, the people that read free news, saying that the equipment
the boys possessed, Nigeria didn’t have them.
‘’But it was basically out of ignorance.
Do you know what a missile is? Do you know what it takes to launch a
missile?’’, Mr Christopher Abarowei, a resident of the state, said.
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