We will stop oil production — New militant group

Firstclass Newsline gathered that one of the militant groups that have
emerged since renewed militancy in the Niger Delta began, the Ultimate
Warriors of Niger Delta, on Saturday said it had nothing to lose if
oil production is disrupted in Nigeria.
The militant group, considered as an affiliate of the rampaging Niger
Delta Avengers, described the alleged double speak of the Federal
Government on dialogue with the people of the region as worrisome and
inciting.
In a statement it issued, the militant group said the Movement for the
Emancipation of the Niger Delta should stop parading itself as leader
of militant groups in the region.
The group said, "We have said it before that we have nothing to lose
on the bombing of oil pipelines because our mission is to ground the
oil economy if our demands are not met. We have said we are doing what
we are doing to prod the government to renegotiate the control of our
oil resources and other related matters.
"We have watched with chagrin the recent utterance by the President
(Muhammadu Buhari) and the Vice President (Yemi Osinbajo) and all we
are see in them are double standard and lips service to the demand of
the groups as its concerns the Niger Delta question and that is why
all of our units and affiliates have not fully heeded to our
ceasefire. Today, the president will say something, tomorrow his
deputy and some of their dishonest and selfish lieutenants will
contradict him and that only show how confused and unserious the
government is about the problems and how to deal with them," the
militants stated.
Meanwhile, MEND has urged Niger Delta activists, militants and other
agitators to be united in finding a solution to the region's crisis.
It said in a statement that it was necessary for the region to speak
with one voice and channel grievances and demands to the Federal
Government through the Niger Delta Dialogue and Contact Group.
The militant group expressed the need to speak through a single
umbrella of the "Aaron Team 2 Dialogue and Peace Initiative" led by
Mr. Odein Ajumogobia (SAN).
It asked why many groups, who were silent during the administration of
former President Goodluck Jonathan's "neglect and misrule," had
suddenly found their voice and clamouring for recognition.
MEND also pointed out that it had carefully considered and approved
the NDDCG proposal to join the Aaron Team, ahead of the expected
dialogue with the Federal Government.
"All aggrieved minor militant groups, all those so-called Niger Delta
activists, elders, tribal assemblies, sycophants and parasites amongst
others, who have suddenly found their voice after six years of a
criminal conspiracy of silence during the neglect and misrule of
former President Goodluck Jonathan; and who are now clamouring for
recognition, relevance and inclusion in the ongoing Niger Delta peace
process should contact and channel their grievances and demands
through the NDDCG, which will act as their representative.
"The subject matter of the discourse centred around the forthcoming
dialogue with the Federal Government on the resolution of the current
Niger Delta crisis and the imperative for the entire Niger Delta
region to unite and speak with a single voice under the single
umbrella of the MEND Aaron Team 2 dialogue and peace initiative led by
Mr. Odein Ajumogobia, SAN," the statement said.