An Urhobo militant group known as the Niger
Delta Greenland Justice Movement, NDGJM,
has blown up the Ogor-Oteri major delivery
line operated by the Nigeria Petroleum
Development Company and Shorelines
Petroleum in the state.
The group in a statement released and
signed by its leader, “Gen” Aldo Agbalaja,
said they carried out the attack on the oil
facility at about 3am.
The group said they will also be launching
“Operation Crocodile Tears” since the military
had launched “Operation Crocodile Smile” to
supposedly worsen the Niger Delta crisis.
Read part of their statement below...
“Recent developments around our
region, especially as it concerns the
issue of justice and our inalienable
right to protect our heritage, have
proven us right all along. Now it has
become clearer who is serious about
getting justice for our people and who
has been using the name of the region
and the destinies of all our peoples to
feather their nests, raising dusts
merely to harass the Nigerian state
and the oil multinationals into parting
with money. Although some selfish
machinery, merely put together to
achieve some pecuniary ends, has
been parading in the name of the
peoples of the Niger Delta, the Niger
Delta Greenland Justice Mandate will
not be derailed on its mission to
getting justice for the people. When
lines are blurred, justice is most likely
to be miscarried. If there shall be a
negotiation, it must be seen and
indeed, must be in actual sense, be
representing all the individual nations
of the region equally. The drama that
trailed the visit of some Ijaw royal
fathers to the Minister of State for
Petroleum, Ibe Kachikwu, in Abuja
recently is more reason why equity
must be a factor in setting up a body
that will dialogue on behalf of all the
peoples of the Niger Delta.” “If the
said leader could not respect the royal
fathers of his ethnic nation, if he is
lording his will over them, what
chance do other nations have, which
do not have adequate representation?
That said, the Niger Delta Greenland
Justice Mandate will no longer sit
quietly watching the endless
harassment of our people in various
parts of the region by the Nigerian
military. We had once warned against
the victimization and harassment of
defenseless people of the region,
especially in the creeks, but rather
than heed, the Nigerian military has
increased its presence and made life
more difficult for our people. They are
now killing our people on the basis of
mere suspicion, this cannot continue.
With the launch of their ‘Operation
Crocodile Smile’, the Niger Delta
Greenland Justice Mandate is also
serving a notice on the
commencement of our ‘Operation
Crocodile Tears.’ It shall from now on
be an eye for an eye; for every military
atrocity carried out in the creeks and
hinterland of the Niger Delta, the
Nigerian armed forces will have the
Niger Delta Greenland Justice Mandate
to contend with. To this end, we are
alerting all those working in the
UQCC/UPS Erhomukokwarien in
Ughelli, Eriemu Pigging Manifold in
Agbarha, Otorogun Gas Plant,
Olomoro Flow Station, Warri Refinery,
Port Harcourt Refinery, Eleme, OB-OB
and Obite gas plants in Omoku to
evacuate because what is coming to
those facilities are beyond what
anybody has seen before. We do not
want innocent blood being spilled,
therefore, we advise all indigenes
living in the vicinities of the facilities
to relocate for the time being. The
world should, however, note that the
bloodbath that is about to commence
in our already beaten, battered,
squeezed and impoverished homeland,
the Niger Delta. It is all the baby of
the Nigerian government; they are the
people, who are in one breath
preaching resolution through dialogue
and also breathing bullets and bombs
on a troubled, but trusting people.
“Hold the Nigerian President
responsible for the genocide that his
armed forces is about to unleash on
our people,”the statement read
Delta Greenland Justice Movement, NDGJM,
has blown up the Ogor-Oteri major delivery
line operated by the Nigeria Petroleum
Development Company and Shorelines
Petroleum in the state.
The group in a statement released and
signed by its leader, “Gen” Aldo Agbalaja,
said they carried out the attack on the oil
facility at about 3am.
The group said they will also be launching
“Operation Crocodile Tears” since the military
had launched “Operation Crocodile Smile” to
supposedly worsen the Niger Delta crisis.
Read part of their statement below...
“Recent developments around our
region, especially as it concerns the
issue of justice and our inalienable
right to protect our heritage, have
proven us right all along. Now it has
become clearer who is serious about
getting justice for our people and who
has been using the name of the region
and the destinies of all our peoples to
feather their nests, raising dusts
merely to harass the Nigerian state
and the oil multinationals into parting
with money. Although some selfish
machinery, merely put together to
achieve some pecuniary ends, has
been parading in the name of the
peoples of the Niger Delta, the Niger
Delta Greenland Justice Mandate will
not be derailed on its mission to
getting justice for the people. When
lines are blurred, justice is most likely
to be miscarried. If there shall be a
negotiation, it must be seen and
indeed, must be in actual sense, be
representing all the individual nations
of the region equally. The drama that
trailed the visit of some Ijaw royal
fathers to the Minister of State for
Petroleum, Ibe Kachikwu, in Abuja
recently is more reason why equity
must be a factor in setting up a body
that will dialogue on behalf of all the
peoples of the Niger Delta.” “If the
said leader could not respect the royal
fathers of his ethnic nation, if he is
lording his will over them, what
chance do other nations have, which
do not have adequate representation?
That said, the Niger Delta Greenland
Justice Mandate will no longer sit
quietly watching the endless
harassment of our people in various
parts of the region by the Nigerian
military. We had once warned against
the victimization and harassment of
defenseless people of the region,
especially in the creeks, but rather
than heed, the Nigerian military has
increased its presence and made life
more difficult for our people. They are
now killing our people on the basis of
mere suspicion, this cannot continue.
With the launch of their ‘Operation
Crocodile Smile’, the Niger Delta
Greenland Justice Mandate is also
serving a notice on the
commencement of our ‘Operation
Crocodile Tears.’ It shall from now on
be an eye for an eye; for every military
atrocity carried out in the creeks and
hinterland of the Niger Delta, the
Nigerian armed forces will have the
Niger Delta Greenland Justice Mandate
to contend with. To this end, we are
alerting all those working in the
UQCC/UPS Erhomukokwarien in
Ughelli, Eriemu Pigging Manifold in
Agbarha, Otorogun Gas Plant,
Olomoro Flow Station, Warri Refinery,
Port Harcourt Refinery, Eleme, OB-OB
and Obite gas plants in Omoku to
evacuate because what is coming to
those facilities are beyond what
anybody has seen before. We do not
want innocent blood being spilled,
therefore, we advise all indigenes
living in the vicinities of the facilities
to relocate for the time being. The
world should, however, note that the
bloodbath that is about to commence
in our already beaten, battered,
squeezed and impoverished homeland,
the Niger Delta. It is all the baby of
the Nigerian government; they are the
people, who are in one breath
preaching resolution through dialogue
and also breathing bullets and bombs
on a troubled, but trusting people.
“Hold the Nigerian President
responsible for the genocide that his
armed forces is about to unleash on
our people,”the statement read
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