Nigeria: Militant Group Threatens to Cripple Oil, Gas Firms

A new militant organization, known as the Grand Alliance of Niger Delta, has threatened to attack the country’s oil and gas interests should oil companies in the region fail to meet its demand of employing the teeming unemployed youths of the Niger Delta origin.

The group, at a press conference in Port Harcourt yesterday through its spokesman, Samuel Ebiye, said it had dispatched threat letters by its leader, General Abiye Toru, to many oil companies warning that should they fail to employ the youth by September 7, 2007, they would risk being attacked.
Toru said the old excuse of the companies that the region lacked trained personnel to take up positions is no longer tenable, just as he said the group had compiled a list of more than 250,000 youths who are qualified to fill various areas in the sector.

“We hereby forward some Curriculum Vitae of the underlisted graduates of Niger Delta for unconditional employment in your corporation. It is grave injustice for the Niger Delta graduates to be unemployed in the midst of plenty.

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