Nigerian Oil Output Threatened

CHAN:
A militant group leading a violent campaign against oil facilities, has set up camp close to Africa's largest liquid-to-gas plant and crude terminals. They threaten to attack workers and facilities.
STORY:
These militants pose the latest threat to oil production in the Niger Delta.

The Okoloma Ikpangi group says it will slash output to the barest minimum unless the Nigerian government stops building up its troops in the region. Their commander says it will happen within 30 days.

[Commander Boma, Okoloma Ikpangi Group]:
"To attack these multi-nationals is just our pick. It's not going to cost us anything. We just wake up one morning, we walk down there and cause any havoc we like inside there."

The group has set up camp close the site of Africa's largest liquid-to-gas producer and crude terminals used by several multi-national oil firms.

The militants are affiliated to the main Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta that is behind a campaign of violence against the oil industry in Africa's biggest-producing nation.

Niger Delta oil workers and facilities are the target for attacks.

The militant factions say they're fighting for greater local control of resources in the delta where millions live in abject poverty despite the masive oil reserves.

But a breakdown in law and order has allowed criminal gangs to thrive by kidnapping for ransom and stealing crude.

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[iratetruth]

engineerpn- excellent point that is exactly what is going on and the all the puppet african leaders and politicians who work for european interest only should be shoot and removed and I love the militant groups that stop production and remind there corrupt government that the profits from oil coming out of african land should benefit the african people.

[buffblaze]

buhahhahahaha.

i guess i'm supposed to be hurt by that.

well that nigger stuff doesnt work on africans.

fuck u asshole.

[milackk7]

I see your support for the rebels, but they would be better serving their country if they ousted the criminals in government and the courts, and got the military and police to side with them in enforcing fair distribution of oil wealth and production of goods (not oil) to maintain their economy and independence from foreign dependence. Cut oil production and charge the U.S. more in exchange for all the resources they've extorted.

[HouseNigro]

niggers - doesnt matter where they are...they're all about getting a piece of your pie.

[achiane]

how dumm can u really get................

[tekenareuben]

love the youths of today, Nigeria needs a revolution

[motelcalifornia]

Kill them. People like that just want money!

[Biafrans7]

"What right has Femi Otedola and Aliko Dangote and others have to take our oil while somebody from the oil community does not have the right to take it?" -------------- Asari Dokubo. Daily Independent Newspapers. Thursday June 25, 2009.

[Biafrans7]

"It is a shame that the Interior Minister (Godwin Abbe) and his cohorts are offering bribes and incentives to militants in a desperate attempt to get our co-operation in sharing the N50 billion budgeted for the amnesty exercise." --- Jomo Gbomo, spokesman of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta(MEND). --- Daily Independent Newspapers. Thursday June 25, 2009.

[keithmckay123]

Am so happy to see that the brothers are standing up for the the poor people in the delta i don't give a damn about the west they drive big cars why kids in the delta suffer fuck that keep fight until the oil money benefit the families in the delta.

[Biafrans7]

The ethnic groups in Nigeria are not up to 100. It is gowon's propaganda that took it up to 250. Even dialects were added as ethnicities and some groups added on the basis of political gerrymandering.

[ElinGunnarsson]

@owiz22....say that to the dog n i guess u aint a nigerian