A Nigerian militant group has vowed “‘brutish, brutal and bloody” attacks on oil companies.
The Niger Delta Avengers (NDA) has ended a ceasefire in the oil rich African nation and is to resume a campaign of violence which has struck terror into the heart of the oil-rich region.
The group also implied that there could be fatalities in the coming months.
In a message posted on its website, the group said: “Message to the Oil Companies; Our next line of operation will not be like the 2016 campaign which we operated successfully without any casualties; this outing will be brutish, brutal and bloody, as we are shall crush everything we meet on our path to completely put off the fires that burn to flair gas in our communities and cut every pipe that moves crude away from our region.
“We can assure you that every oil installation in our region will feel warmth of the wrath of the Niger Delta Avengers.”
The Avengers also posted a message to the Nigerian Government, vowing to disrupt an attempt by French supermajor Total bring an FPSO into the region.
The group said: “We are presently tracking and monitoring it’s movement; and God willing it shall not operate successfully in amidst the return of the fury of the Niger Delta Avengers.”
The online post ends with a quote.
It said: “According to John F Kennedy; Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.”
The NDA came out publicly last year, causing the shutdown of oil terminals and operations.
According to the ideology posted online the group believe that oil has “tainted” the Nigerian economy.
One post states: “Oil fouls everything in southern Nigeria. It spills from the pipelines, poisoning soil and water. It stains the hands of politicians and generals, who siphon off its profits. It taints the ambitions of the young, who will try anything to scoop up a share of the liquid riches—fire a gun, sabotage a pipeline, kidnap a foreigner.
“Beyond the city, within the labyrinth of creeks, rivers, and pipeline channels that vein the delta—one of the world’s largest wetlands—exists a netherworld. Villages and towns cling to the banks, little more than heaps of mud-walled huts and rusty shacks. Groups of hungry, half-naked children and sullen, idle adults wander dirt paths. There is no electricity, no clean water, no medicine, no schools. Fishing nets hang dry; dugout canoes sit unused on muddy banks. Decades of oil spills, acid rain from gas flares, and the stripping away of mangroves for pipelines have killed off fish.”