niger delta

New militant group emerges, and they’re not playing games

The new group has also begun to follow in the footsteps of its recently created older brother, Niger Delta Avengers (NDA) by threatening to attack oil installations in the region.

A new militant group has emerged in the already volatile Niger Delta region of Nigeria, and its members are calling themselves the Ultimate Warriors of Niger Delta.

The new group has also begun to follow in the footsteps of its recently created older brother, Niger Delta Avengers (NDA) by threatening to attack oil installations in the region.

The warriors made the threat via a statement issued by their spokesperson, Sibiri Taiowoh.

It reads in part:

We want to be the ones to be safe guarding oil pipeline in our area so as to create more jobs for our people. We would resist any attempt to give surveillance contracts of pipeline in our backyard to foreigners.

We want the pipeline jobs to be given to our indigenous people. We also want 60 per cent of the oil blocs to be allocated to the Niger Deltans just as the Federal Government has also allocated 80 per cent to those who are not from the oil producing area and just as 50 per cent of the resource was used to develop the non-oil area when we were producing cocoa and groundnut as main economic resources, the same 50 percent should be used to develop the Niger Delta region because we are the ones suffering the brunt of oil pollution and degradation in the region.

We are behind the recent pipeline bombing in the Niger Delta region and I can assure you we will not stop until the EPZ project and the Maritime University are totally completed and start operations.