Niger Delta militants have vowed to go on with their attacks on oil facilities in their region despite an order by President Muhammadu Buhari to the military to clamp down on the new faceless Avengers’ group.
On Tuesday, the Niger Delta Liberation Force, NDLF, declared that the bombing of pipelines in the Niger Delta would continue because Buhari “is not God to be feared”.
This was disclosed in a statement issued by NDLF spokesman, Mark Anthony, who boasted that the entire Nigerian Army was incapable of protecting all pipelines in the South-South.
The group requested for the sack of the Coordinator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme, Paul Boroh, for trying to intimidate militants with threat.
“We have not condemned the current bombing because when we surrendered, we told the world that bombing of pipelines was not over yet.
“Those bombing pipelines in Delta State should not behave like cowards if they are truly fighting the interest of Niger Delta. They should be bold enough to come out. When we were bombing, our leader General John Togo did not hide his face. We dealt with the Nigerian Army, and we were not hiding.
“They should not hide their identity. Buhari is not God and they should not be scared of him. JTF should not attack and arrest innocent people in Ijaw communities; they should go for the real saboteurs.
“We told former President Goodluck Jonathan that Nigerian Army couldn’t protect pipelines in the creek.
“The current Amnesty Chairman Paul Boroh does not know the boys in Niger Delta. He is not in touch with Niger Delta major ex-agitators.
“Buhari should sack him immediately and appoint another chairman like Kingsley Kuku, who knows the boys in the creek. This will help the current oil war,” the NDLF said in the statement.
