We're not yet ready for talks - Militants to FG

After attacking the 42-inch delivery line operated by Nigerian Petroleum Development Company, NPDC and Niger Delta Western, in Otu-Jeremi, Delta State, weekend, the Niger Delta Greenland Justice Mandate, NDGJM, yesterday announced that it was not ready for talks with the Federal Government.

NDGJM, which also warned government to be cautious of conflict merchants and political jobbers in the region, in a statement by “Gen” Aldo Agbalaja, the militant group said: “Be wary of these political jobbers, whose stock in trade has always been using the struggle to profiteer.

We have severally indicated how to end this and definitely not through political jobbers and conflict merchants. If, and when we have reasons to trust anybody to hold discussions with, we shall, through this same medium, announce the process and the persons. This is a warning for the wise.”

It claimed its Akuma strike force hit the delivery line at about 04.00 hours on Sunday, November 27, “to register our presence and jolt those probably slipping into delusion, back to reality.