The Nigerian oil industry stands the risk of militant attacks very soon if the Federal Government fails to repeal the Land Use Decree and some other laws that entirely withhold ownership of natural resources from the people of the Niger Delta.
A militant group, the Grand Alliance of the Niger Delta, which issued this threat on Tuesday in Port Harcourt, also said it would target the Rivers State Government House and the homes of selected people of Rivers State for destruction if the state government went on with its plan �to displace people that live on the waterfronts in Port Harcourt.�
Addressing journalists on behalf of the organisation, its President-General, Abiye Toru, and the Secretary-General, Samuel Ebiye, said the Niger Delta issue had gone beyond the era of negotiations as several negotiations had been held without progress.
They said they had no confidence in the upcoming presidential Niger Delta stakeholders� forum which they said would be attended by the wrong people, whom they accused of being responsible for the current predicament of the region.
�Mr. President knows what to do to repeal these laws that have enslaved us. We cannot be going for stakeholders meetings when we still have all these obnoxious laws. We don�t want to negotiate,� they said.