A new militant group, the Ultimate Warriors of Niger Delta
have surfaced, with a demand that the Federal government allocate 60% of the
nation's oil blocs to indigenes of the Niger Delta region.
In a statement signed by its spokesperson, Brig. Sibiri
Taiowoh and made available to newsmen yesterday June 8th, the group said
failure to meet their demands within 2 weeks will see continuous attack of oil
installations in the Niger Delta region.
The militants amongst other things are demanding for the
completion of the Federal Maritime University which was established by former
President Goodluck Jonathan as well as the contract to secure oil pipelines in
the region
Read their statement below:
“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 use 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"
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