After the emergence of the Niger Delta Avengers and the Joint Niger Delta Liberation Force, a new militant group has now made their emergence– The Ultimate Warriors of Niger Delta.
The new group made their first statement since their inception, threatening that they would continue to attack oil and gas facilities across the Niger Delta region unless the Nigerian government agreed to award 60 per cent oil blocs to the people of the region.
They also demanded that the Federal Government allow the $16 billion Export Processing Zone otherwise called Delta Gas City project begin operations in earnest.
They also demanded that activities at the Federal Maritime University established during the time of Goodluck Jonathan begin.
They made all these demands in a statement made by their spokesman Sibiri Taiowoh adding that these conditions which they gave the Federal government an ultimatum of two weeks to meet are the only prerequisites that would be acceptable for any talk of a ceasefire.
Inside the statement, Ultimate Warrior (As they want to be called) said “We are also 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.
“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”