New Militant Group Threatens To Blow Up Utorogun Gas Plant

WARRI – A secessionist group, Utorogun
Liberation Movement, ULM, surfaced, Thursday,
in Delta State, vowing to destroy the Utorogun
Gas Plant, Ughelli, which supplies gas to Egbin
Power Station, Lagos, and other facilities under
Oil Mining Lease, OML 34 in Ughelli South
Local Government Area of the state.

The agitators operating in alliance with another
group, “Outgas Force,” in a proclamation by its
leader, Gen K Omoudu, addressed to the host
communities in OML 34, said:, “My good
people of Utorogun community, Otu-Jeremi,
Otor-Udu, Iwkrekan, Ekakpamre and all oil and
pipeline communities within this region, this is
the voice of ULM in collaboration with Outgas
Force.”

“It is a secessionist move. The awareness of
things happening in our environment is a
means to outline our cause of action. The
awareness is an agitation for economic
balance. We have a common enemy, the
Nigerian Petroleum Development Company,
NPDC and ND Western who hate your progress
and wish you died in poverty.

“They threaten our stability, disregard us. This
area is the heart of hydrocarbon industries in
Nigeria and other countries responsible for a
huge chunk of the nation’s oil earnings. The
question concerning how many barrels of oil
and gas this our field produces remain
unanswered, our hopes far from what we are
witnessing,” it said.

It added: ‘If we fail to fight, we will face a
precarious future. The door is widely open for
anybody within this region to join the exercise,
text your names and community to these
numbers -08029936321, 08074237107. Do not
call; you will receive text of days of meetings
few days from now.”

Residents of Otu-Jeremi, Otor-Udu, Iwkrekan,
Ekakpamre and other communities, who woke
up to see the streamer notices were seen
discussing the development in hushed tone.

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