The Niger Delta Avengers have sworn to renew attacks on major oil installations in the oil producing region of the country. It said its aim this time around is to destabilise the deep sea operations of international oil companies. Avengers in a statement on its website, signed by its spokesperson, Major General Murdoch Agbinibo, said the decision was reached after its high command summoned a meeting of all its operatives from across the Niger Delta to review the progress of its operations so far and deliberate on the planned actions for the future.
In the statement titled, ‘Happy doomed year Nigeria; get ready for operation bringing down FPSO’, said this renewed round of attacks would be the most deadly and would be targeting the deep sea operations of multinationals oil companies operating in the country. The group, which called for an immediate restructure of the country, listed the oil installations targeted to include the Bonga Platform, Agbami, EA Field, Britania-U Field, Akpo Field, amongst others littered across the deep waters of the Niger Delta region.
It said “As for the Egina Floating Production, Storage and Offloading (FPSO)vessel, we are advising the operators to let it stay where ever it is right now as we are tracking its movement. We mean it when we say they (the oil installations) shall dance to the sound of the fury of the Niger DeltaAvengers. Good a thing the ocean is wide enough to accommodate as many wrecks as possible. While promising a brutal outpour of our wrath, which shall shake the coffers of the failed Nigerian nation, our demand unambiguously is for the government to ‘restructure this country”. The group said it had initially pledged to reactivate ‘Operation red economy’ on the 3rd of November 2017, but had to suspend the action because of some elders of the region, it described as overzealous and over patriotic elders.
The group said that the elders had intervened and appealed as they had done twice before then for it to avail them some more time to attend to the demands of the Niger Delta as championed by the Niger Delta Avengers. It said, “that we have not achieved any meaningful results despite the opportunities we have availed the Niger Delta elders means that they are either irresponsible or the Nigerian government is not sincere with them as it is their trade in stock. Because of the above, we have resolved not to listen to the Niger Delta elders as we unravel our New Year package to the failed Nigerian state this time around.”
The group further argued that any individual that is against the restructuring of the country is an enemy of this country and particularly an enemy of the Niger Delta Avengers. According to the group, it shall not rest until such enemies are defeated by the Niger Delta people who earnestly seek to control its own resources. The group said, “The high command of the Niger Delta Avengers wishes all Niger Deltans a happy New Year as we admonish the NigerianGovernment to brace up for the doom we have finished all arrangement to unleash on the oil sector in a few days time.
“On the 15th of January 2018, being the 62nd historic remembrance day of the 1956 discovery of commercial oil by Shell Darcy in the now forgotten and dejected Oloibiri Community in the Niger Delta; the high command of the NDAvengers summoned a meeting of all our operatives from across the Niger Delta to review the progress of our operations so far and deliberate on the plan for the future. It was agreed in that meeting that the killings and division presently playing out in Nigeria along divergent grounds makes this the perfect time to restructure this country. We want to control our resources and directly use them to better our lot instead of been enslaved and made to beg before crumbs are released in a dress rehearsal-like manner to intervention agencies that are ineffective at addressing our challenges. While $1 billion from the excess crude account is been released to fight a Boko Haram in the North; successive government acts blind to the very bold array of challenges our region from which this wealth is generated is facing; as they (the Nigerian Government) derives pleasure in sending their unprofessional and weak military to invade our communities and subject our already sick and suffering people to more hardship and poverty.
“Only a few days ago the Nigerian Army released 244 members of the murderous Boko Haram sect to Borno state government while thousands of innocent Niger Delta youths continue to suffer in various prisons across the country for no just cause. It is on the above premise that we are demanding the immediate release of all Niger Deltan Activists and Freedom Fighters that are held captive by the Nigeria Armed Forces. The extrajudicial cold blooded murder of Kareowei and 20 members of his gang by the Nigerian Army after deceiving them with Amnesty offer is very unprofessional; yes they were common criminals who brought pain to our own people but going ahead to murder them after reaching an agreement with them and making them to surrendered to the army is a clear pointer to the insincerity of the Nigerian Government at handling issues that concern the Niger Delta; just like the Nigerian Government daily deceive the international community of how professional the multinationals are carrying out their operations and how vast they have developed our lands; when the reverse is actually the case on ground.
“Let the Kareowei issue be a lesson to all freedom fighters across the Niger Delta never to fall for the antics of the insincere NigerianGovernment; put the fear of death aside and fight till the last drop of blood whenever you are engaged in a gun duel with the Nigeria Army as it is this same path we have chosen to glory. Again, the Niger Delta Avengers wish Nigeria a doomed 2018; courtesy the skilled hands of our fierce and smooth operatives across the Niger Delta.”
