BREAKING NEWS, Oil & Gas
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The Ultimate Warriors of Niger Delta, a new militant group, demands 60 percent of oil blocks to be awarded to people from the region failure of which it will totally shut down operations of vital oil facilities including Chevron BOP, Okan Platform, MEREN Gas Gathering Compression Platform and Chevron Tank Farm should the Nigerian government fail to comply within 14-days
THE Ultimate Warriors of Niger Delta, a new militant group, is demanding that the federal government should give 60 percent of oil blocks to the people from the Niger Delta region failure of which it will continue to attack oil and gas facilities in the region.
The Ultimate Warriors of Niger Delta which spoke for the very first time on Wednesday, June 8, also demanded that the federal government should allow the $16 billion Export Processing Zone otherwise called Delta Gas City project begin operations in earnest.
It also issued a two-week ultimatum to the government to ensure that their demands were adequately met to ensure a lasting ceasefire in the region.
Sibiri Taiowoh, spokesperson of Ultimate Warriors of Niger Delta, in a statement said if the federal government truly wants peace in the region, it should award 60 per cent oil bloc to indigenous people from the region as its primary demand for a ceasefire.
It also wants academic activities to begin soonest at Federal Maritime University which was established by former President Goodluck Jonathan.
According to the statement, failure to meet the demands of the Ultimate warriors will lead to total closure of vital oil facilities including Chevron BOP, Okan Platform, MEREN Gas Gathering Compression Platform and Chevron Tank Farm.
“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 used to develop the Niger Delta region because we are the ones suffering the brunt of oil pollution and degradation in the region”, the statement said.
— Jun 8, 2016 @ 9 :46 GMT
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