A relatively new militant group, Niger Delta Greenland Justice Mandate (NDGJM)
today claimed responsibility for an attack an oil pipeline in Delta.
The NDGJM in a statement said that it attacked the
Ogor-Oteri pipeline operated by the Nigerian Petroleum Development Company
(NPDC), a subsidiary of NNPC in joint venture with Shoreline, an indigenous energy firm at around
03:00 a.m.
The joint military force in the Niger Delta could not
immediately confirm the incident when contacted on Tuesday August 30, 2016 as
they said they were in the process of verifying the claim.
The claimed attack comes less than 24 hours after the Niger
Delta Avengers, the dominant group responsible for most attacks in the region
said it had halted hostilities.
“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,” ‘Gen’
Aldo Agbalaja said
“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,” the group said..
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