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Niger Delta Greenland Justice Movement (NDGJM), has declared ‘Operation Crocodile Tears,’ as it blew up the Ogor-Oteri major delivery line, operated by the Nigeria Petroleum Development Company and Shorelines Petroleum in Delta State.
The group’s attack came despite the ongoing military “Operation Crocodile Smile” in the Niger Delta region.
 
The group in a statement by its leader, “Gen” Aldo Agbalaja, while claiming responsibility for the attack that happened at about 3.00 hours, said it was executed by its Uproot Team B.
 
NDGJM, also claimed that it has launched “Operation Crocodile Tears,” just like the military had launched “Operation Crocodile Smile” to evidently worsen the Niger Delta crisis.
 
It said in the statement, “Recent developments around our region, especially as it concerns the issue of justice and our inalienable right to protect our heritage, have proven us right all along. Now it has become clearer who is serious about getting justice for our people and who has been using the name of the region and the destinies of all our peoples to feather their nests, raising dusts merely to harass the Nigerian state and the oil multinationals into parting with money.”
According to the group, the self-acclaimed leaders of the region who want to make quick money in the arrangement they had put together were free to do so. 
 
NDGJM however, said that it lacked confidence in the dialogue team that is tagged pan Niger Delta initiative, adding that the group can only speak for Ijaw nation and not for all the nations in the region.
 
“When lines are blurred, justice is most likely to be miscarried. If there shall be a negotiation, it must be seen and indeed, must be in actual sense, be representing all the individual nations of the region equally.”
 
 
“The drama that trailed the visit of some Ijaw royal fathers to the Minister of State for Petroleum, Ibe Kachikwu, in Abuja recently is more reason why equity must be a factor in setting up a body that will dialogue on behalf of all the peoples of the Niger Delta.
 
“If the said leader could not respect the royal fathers of his ethnic nation, if he is lording his will over them, what chance do other nations have, which do not have adequate representation?
 
“That said, the Niger Delta Greenland Justice Mandate will no longer sit quietly watching the endless harassment of our people in various parts of the region by the Nigerian military. We had once warned against the victimisation and harassment of defenseless people of the region, especially in the creeks, but rather than heed, the Nigerian military has increased its presence and made life more difficult for our people.
 
“They are now killing our people on the basis of mere suspicion, this cannot continue. With the launch of their ‘Operation Crocodile Smile’, the Niger Delta Greenland Justice Mandate is also serving a notice on the commencement of our ‘Operation Crocodile Tears.’ It shall from now on be an eye for an eye; for every military atrocity carried out in the creeks and hinterland of the Niger Delta, the Nigerian armed forces will have the Niger Delta Greenland Justice Mandate to contend with,” NDGJM said.
 
It then asked those working in the UQCC/UPS Erhomukokwarien in Ughelli, Eriemu Pigging Manifold in Agbarha, Otorogun Gas Plant, Olomoro Flow Station, Warri Refinery, Port Harcourt Refinery, Eleme, OB-OB and Obite gas plants in Omoku to evacuate because “what is coming to those facilities are beyond what anybody has seen before.”
By Ebere Ndukwu …
 
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