The Niger Delta
Greenland Justice Mandate, NDGJM, a militant group, has warned residents
around major oil and gas facilities across the region to evacuate with
immediate effect in order not to end up as casualties of militancy.
According to the Daily Sun, the
Niger Delta Greenland Justice Mandate said all marked facilities in the
region have been rigged with explosives at strategic points, waiting to
be detonated, adding that the detonation was being held back because of
the people in the environment.
“One more time, we are warning and at
the same time appealing to residents around major oil and gas facilities
across our region to please evacuate immediately,” the militants are
quoted as saying.
“This warning has become necessary
because of the fact that we do not wish any of our people, for whom we
have taken up this crusade, to become casualties of our campaign.
“All the marked facilities in all the states have been rigged with explosives at strategic points, waiting to be detonated.
“We are only being slowed down because
of the presence of those still living close by. This struggle will only
cease when the adversarial Nigerian system yields to reason,” a
statement by the group’s spokesman, Aldo Agbalaja read.
Agbalaja further warned the Federal
Government to be wary of Chief Edwin Clark, insisting that the ceasefire
declared by the elder statesman on behalf of militants was “a big fat
lie, another charade.”
He said Chief Clark and his cohorts were
desperate to make money from government, oil companies and the general
public out of the present situation in the name of a “non-existent
ceasefire by the Niger Delta Greenland Justice Mandate.”
He maintained that there was no reason
yet for the group to halt its assault against oil facilities when the
government was “yet to move a muscle to respond to our requests,” adding
the group has no member or talking leader by the name ODU.
“This said call and the so-called
ceasefire is all a job, just like the Ijaw-dominated, Clark convened
Niger Delta stakeholders meeting in Effurun was, they both are meant to
justify money they hope to obtain from government.
“The high command of the Niger Delta
Greenland Justice Mandate uses this medium to alert the world to
disregard this fraud. We have our means of communicating, definitely not
a call.
“With this development, if the Nigerian
security system is serious about catching frauds and militants, they
should get those who claimed to have spoken on phone with ODU, they
should still have his physical contacts.
“When we make our next ‘LOUD’ statement,
they should go after ODU, who just claimed to be the leader of the
mandate,” the statement added.
It maintained that the group was not an
Urhobo as has been reported in a section of the media, noting that as a
result of the Urhobo tag, there has been reckless invasion of some
Urhobo communities by the military.
The group has also reaffirmed its lack
of confidence in the Chief Edwin Clark-led team to dialogue with the
federal government. The group insisted it has not appointed anyone or
group to go into negotiating with anybody or government on its behalf.
The group, in a statement signed by Gen. Aldo Agbalaja, warned the
federal government to be wary of the antics of some leaders in the
region who out of desperation to make money are capable of doing
anything to defraud anyone in the guise of championing the course of the
Niger Delta region.
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