By Emma Amaize, Festus Ahon, Egufe Yafugborhi & Perez Brisibe,

WARRI—A coalition of Niger Delta militants under the auspices of Niger Delta Greenland Justice Mandate, NDGJM, has told  the Federal Government to stop parleying with Ijaw ethnic nationality alone, as it was not the only ethnic nationality in the region whose militants can blow up pipelines.

Spokesperson of the group, self-styled ‘Gen’ Aldo Agbalaja, in a statement, yesterday,  warned that the group would blow up Shell, Agip, Mobil, Shorelines, Neconde, E.D Western and Seplat facilities in the areas in the next 48 hours if government does not halt its prejudiced talks with Ijaw nation.

The targeted installations, according to the group, are in the Ogba/Egi axis of Rivers State, Urhobo/Isoko/Ndokwa axis of Delta State and other upland oil producing areas.

It said: “We also want to bring to the attention of the Federal Government and NNPC that the refineries in Warri (Urhoboland), Port Harcourt (Eleme) and the gas plant in Otorogun, will all come down few days from now.

“We hope that the Nigerian government will continue to ignore us so that we can perfect what those in the riverine area started.

“The Federal Government and the oil multinational companies have been making a grave mistake by equating the interest of the Ijaw people to that of all the ethnic groups in the region. This is a mistake that is about to take a more devastating toll than has ever been seen or experienced in the history of Nigeria.

“Any moment  from now, we shall be making a loud statement which we believe should be loud enough for all to hear and take seriously and then afterwards state our demands. The statement we are about to make is inevitable because of the recalcitrance of the federal authorities and the oil giants as they both have decided to ignore calls to reason and have made violence the only option.

“All the people of the upland Niger Delta, in whose domains the largest and most critical oil assets are located, have been ignored over the years as government and the oil companies pander to every whim and caprice of those who have violently engaged the state. Just as in the 2009 experience, the Federal Government and oil companies have started yet another round of negotiation with the Ijaw front, as representatives of all the people of the Niger Delta.

“This will not work, since they do not regard the assets in our areas as important enough to be protected, we shall root them all out of the length of the Niger Delta.”