Again, Militants Attack NPDC's Crude Oil Pipeline

For the third time in a month, the Niger Delta Greenland Justice Mandate (NDGJM), a militant group opposed to dialogue with the Federal Government, in the early hours of Thursday, attacked another crude oil delivery pipeline in Delta State, destroying the facility as a fulfilment of its earlier threat to the government.
A statement, signed by the group’s spokesperson, Aldo Agbalaja, said, “As a mark of our commitment to a just course, and to prove to the wicked and ungrateful multinational oil companies and their Nigerian military allies, who have been forcefully taking our natural endowment, without any visible returns, that we own our lands, the Opudo Strike Team of the Niger Delta Greenland Justice Mandate, at about 0100hour today, 29th September, 2016, bombed the Unenurhie-Evwreni delivery line in Ughelli South/North, respectively, operated by Nigerian Petroleum Development Company (NPDC),” a subsidiary of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC).
The group, said, “We want to assure the oil multinational companies that we are determined to end their operations in our lands, and this, we shall, if they fail to show the will to change their relationship with our people and their operational attitude in our lands.”
According to the statement, “For the avoidance of doubts, we want to say categorically, that no amount of military protection/presence can stop this whirlpool, no amount of shoddily arranged military operation can quell the will of our gallant army. The same way their ‘Operation Crocodile Smile’ was sunken by our ‘Operation Crocodile Tears,’ is how all their schemes against our land and people will continue to be defeated.”
It further stressed that, “Like we have said, this will only stop when you turn a new leaf, adopt a sincere attitude, give back to our people what naturally should be theirs, advise the government rightly, stop thinking there's an army to protect you from justice, do these and all that you know are good.
“If you do these, be assured to have a good relationship with our people, and real protection for your personnel and assets across our lands,” the NDGJM added.