Niger Delta Militants Warn Boko Haram, Threaten Oil Installations

Leadership

9 February 2012

Niger Delta Militants Warn Boko Haram, Threaten Oil Installations

A militant group in the Niger Delta has warned that it will be forced to retaliate the killing of Christians and other Southerners by the extremist Islamic sect, Boko Haram, if the federal government failed to tackle the security challenges in parts of the country.

This was just as it threatened to attack major oil installations and military bases if nothing urgent was done to check the ugly situation.

The group, Movement for the Liberation of the People of the Niger Delta (MLPND), specifically flayed the killing of Christians, especially those from the southern part of Nigeria, by the sect and described it as one provocation too many.

Leader of the group, Mr. Dan Anderson, who disclosed this in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, said it would resume the attacks by the end of January to protest the brutal killing of Christians and Southerners by the Boko Haram in some states of the North.

"The bloody activities of these people (Boko Haram) are becoming very unbearable. What is their demand? What do they actually want?" Anderson asked.