A Niger Delta group who call themselves the ‘Niger Delta Musketeers’ have released a statement in which they have stated that they would destroy Chevron Installations in the Niger Delta region.
In an emailed statement to THE HERALD, the group said that they would set out to put into action operation ‘BLACK SEPTEMBER’ if their demands are not met.
The Niger Delta Musketeers have demanded that Chevron re-classify all 151 VTP5/OTP2, and VTP6 Trainees and also that all expatriates working in various IOCs installation vacate the region in 21 days.
The group feels aggrieved that the 16 point agenda laid out by the Pan Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF) has not been followed and they have also given the Government 21 days to follow through on this.
Their statement reads:
When we told the leadership of PANDEF and other critical stakeholders in the Niger delta then that intervened at the peak of hostilities in the region then that the hegemonic operators and cabals of the Nigerian government like Asari Dokubo will always warned that these men cannot and should not be trusted ;that all they wanted and will continue to do is their manipulative propensity to continue to take charge of the proceeds of our oil and gas resources;use same to massage their ego to the detriment of our interest,nobody want to listen.
Several months after the intervention and the seizure of hostilities, what do we have in return to show for the increase in price of crude oil and the quantity of barrel of crude oil produced and exported per day. It is absolutely zero percent.
Most surprisingly is that all those who did intervened then remain aloof while the promises made then had been reneged on and situations graduates on daily basis from bad to worst
Not even the least of all that the headquarters of all the IOCs as directed by the Presidency be relocated to their appropriate environment in the Niger delta was honoured.
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The Niger Delta Musketeers added; Most embarrassing is the recent determination of Chevron Nigeria limited to lay off some of our compatriots after treating them as slave labourers for over six years.
This operation which is intended primarily to ground all Chevron operations in all locations in the Niger Delta e.g (Okan, Meji, Meta, Meren, Abiteye, Opuekeba, Sonam, AGBAMI FPSO, Chevron Tank Farm, and EGTL gas plant) will be graduated to consume other elements of oppresive and exploitative tendencies in the region.
We are totally fed up with the Antics of the Buhari led Federal Government who seems to have abandoned the PANDEF 16 point agenda and the plights of the Niger Delta.
We are appalled that issues like the setting up of Modular Refineries have since been replaced by the FG with a Refinery project in Katsina. The Ogoni Land clean up, Ogidigben Gas City Project, and relocation of all IOCs headquarters have all been abandoned.
The recent recruitment of over 300 persons by the Nigeria Ports Authority (NPA) without any Niger Deltan employed is another proof that Niger Deltans are being treated as second-class citizens in this Country.
It is this continuous desire to enslave Niger Deltans that have emboldened Chevron Nigeria Limited to continue to treat qualified and well-trained sons and daughters of the Niger Delta as slave labourers despite the fact that the VTP5/OTP2 finished their ON-THE-JOB LEARNING since 2015, and other trainees in this type of training in other Chevron Strategic Business units like the Aboriginal Training in Australia and Canada, Regional Occupation Training program in USA, and Settapat Training program in Thailand that started same time with our brothers in these locations have long been enjoying their pay as Chevron Staffs.
The statement by the Niger Delta Musketeers concluded thus; We wish to call on all relevant Embassies especially those of the USA, BRITAIN, FRANCE, GERMANY, etc to as a matter of urgency withdraw their personnel from all IOCs operating in the Niger Delta before the expiration of this ultimatum.
Let it be known that “OPERATION BLACK SEPTEMBER” will be the mother of all operations in the Niger Delta.
This will be “No Retreat, No Surrender”.