Former agitators from oil producing areas of Delta State have threatened to resume attacks on oil facilities in the region in reaction to perceived discriminating actions and policies of Governor Ifeanyi Okowa concerning the affairs of Delta Oil Producing Areas Development Commission, DESOPADEC.
In a statement on Thursday, the aggrieved agitators under a new militant group, New Delta Avengers, NDA, said through its spokesperson, Cpl. Oleum Belum, that: “We hereby declare ‘Operation Cripple Oil and Gas Production’ by any means available to us.”
It warned: “The Federal Government and oil companies – local and multinationals – operating in Delta state are hereby put on notice that effective from midnight, June 30, this year of upheavals 2017, there should be no more oil and gas operations in Delta state. Those who try our resolve shall be made a canon folder and used to show our determination.
"All members of the Joint Action Committee are hereby authorized to return to the trenches.”
