New Militant Group Emerges, Demands 60% Oil Bloc

Another militant gathering, Ultimate Warriors of Niger Delta, has developed with a danger to keep on attacking oil and gas offices over the Niger Delta district unless the Nigerian government consented to recompense 60 for each penny oil coalitions to the general population of the locale.

The new gathering which represented the first run through on Wednesday likewise requested that the national government permit the $16 billion Export Processing Zone generally called Delta Gas City venture start operations decisively.

It, in any case, gave the administration a two-week final proposal to guarantee that their requests were sufficiently met for an enduring truce in the area.

Representative of Ultimate Warrior, as it was tended to, Sibiri Taiowoh, in an announcement got by our reporter, said if the FG genuinely needs peace in the area, it ought to recompense 60 for each penny oil coalition to indigenous individuals from the locale as its essential interest for a truce.

The gathering further requested initiation of scholarly exercises at Federal Maritime University set up amid the administration of previous President Goodluck Jonathan.

Cautioning further, it said inability to meet its requests, would warrant complete closing down of key oil offices including Chevron BOP, Okan Platform, MEREN Gas Gathering Compression Platform and Chevron Tank Farm.

The announcement included, "We are likewise behind the late pipeline besieging in the Niger Delta area and I can guarantee you we won't stop until the EPZ venture and the Maritime University are completely finished and begin operations.

"We need to be the ones to be protected guarding oil pipeline in our general vicinity in order to make more occupations for our kin. We would oppose any endeavor to give observation contracts of pipeline in our terrace to outsiders. We need the pipeline employments to be given to our indigenous individuals."

"We likewise need 60 for each penny of the oil coalitions to be allotted to the Niger Deltans generally as the Federal Government has additionally apportioned 80 for every penny to the individuals who are not from the oil delivering range and pretty much as 50 for each penny of the asset was utilized to build up the non-oil zone when we were creating cocoa and groundnut as fundamental monetary assets, the same 50 percent ought to be use to build up the Niger Delta district since we are the ones enduring the brunt of oil contamination and corruption in the area", it further included.

Source: Punch newspaper