ND MILITANTS BLOW OIL PIPELINE IN DELTA

The Niger Delta Greenland Justice Mandate, NDJM, on early Sunday morning attacked another crude oil delivery pipeline operated by the Nigerian Petroleum Development Company at Effurun-Otor, Ughelli South Council Area of Delta State.

Greenland Mandate said the attack was in rejection of Tuesday’s meeting between President Muhammadu Buhari and some leaders of the region, saying it was not comfortable with some of the delegates in the Chief Edwin Clark-led Pan Niger Delta Forum.

It had also threatened to attack oil facilities in the region if the Federal Government decided to go ahead with the proposed meeting because it did not trust members of the Clark’s committee.

A statement claiming responsibility for the attack by the militants’ spokesman, Aldo Agbalaja, said

We are reiterating our unflinching belief that the Pan-Niger Delta Forum, being coordinated by E.K Clark, is a job and therefore can never get our support. 

Like we said before now, the Niger Delta Greenland Justice Mandate is not opposed to a genuine dialogue between the Federal Government and the real representatives of the various ethnic groups of our region.

The militant group stated that it had commenced the collection of names from the ethnic nationalities whom they stressed would sincerely and equitably represent the people of the region in a genuine negotiation with the Federal Government.