A Niger Delta militant group, the Ultimate Warriors of Niger Delta has vowed to bring the country’s oil production and subsequently the economy to its knees.
While issuing the fresh threat, the militant group noted that it had nothing to lose by blowing up the nation’s oil facilities.
The group further accused the Federal Government of nonchalance towards the proposed dialogue between it and the militants.
According to news agency, Punch, the spokesman of the group, Sibiri Taiowoh in a statement issued said: “We have said it before that we have nothing to lose on the bombing of oil pipelines because our mission is to ground the oil economy if our demands are not met.
“We have said we are doing what we are doing to prod the government to renegotiate the control of our oil resources and other related matters. What we are doing now is the only way to this kind of agitation.
“We have watch with chagrin the recent utterance by the President and his Vice and all we are seeing is them tacitly playing double standards and lips service to the demand of the groups as it concerns the Niger Delta question and that is why all of our Units and affiliates have not fully heeded to our ceasefire.
“Today the President will say something, tomorrow his Vice and some of their dishonest and selfish lieutenants will contradict him and that only shows how confused and unserious the government is about the problems and how to deal with them.”