The Niger Delta Greenland Justice Mandate, a militant group has announced on Monday, September 26,2016 it would not participate in the ceasefire declared by other militant group in the Niger Delta due to the alleged corruption in the President Buhari-led government.
Alleging that the current administration was too corrupt to be trusted, the militant troupe warned that, until government and oil firms operating in the area stopped oppressing the people, the attacks on oil facilities would not stop.
According to Punch, Aldo Agbalaja, the spokesperson for the group, on Monday, issues a statement that cautioned the oil companies and the military to “watch out for the next big statement. It shall shake your imaginations.”
In the statement, the Niger Delta Greenland Justice Mandate criticized the Niger Delta Avengers for rushing into a ceasefire deal with the government.
“The chickens seem to be coming home to roost now. The truth is dawning on the blacklegs that are working to short-change their people will always backfire,” the militants said.
“When the Niger Delta Greenland Justice Mandate said we were out to engage the oppressors to the last, some snickered and bluffed, their indignation became most annoying when those pretenders called Avengers gave life to our prediction and announced a ceasefire.
“Now they are all coming back to the basics; falling back in line after seeing, first hand, that we have been right all along about the Nigerian Federal Government; it is a corrupt system that should never be trusted.
“However, we are using this medium to warn the Nigerian Armed Forces to properly advise their leadership; militarisation of our region can only lead to an avoidable armed confrontation and if this happens, we swear by the gods and ancestors of our land, we shall ensure it is a long and tedious campaign that the Nigerian state will forever regret,” the statement added.
The group further threatened to launch ‘Operation Hammurabi Code’.
“Until we see a sincere and genuine step towards a just and equitable mending of the injustices of all the years past done to our people, this war shall persist and we can guarantee that they cannot win this one, even if they get all the world’s arsenal assembled behind them.
“Operation Crocodile Tears is the mildest of what the world should expect from us, by the time we initiate the phase II and get started with ‘Operation Hammurabi Code’ only God knows what will then become of these plains called Nigeria.”
