MILITANT leaders have vowed to continue their activities in the Niger Delta, in spite of the bashing they received last week from the Joint Task Force.
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The Movement of the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), in an online statement by its spokesman Jomo Gbomo, said: "As earlier promised, we will soon commence attacks on oil installations across the Niger Delta.
"Our fighters have been instructed to carry out more raids on oil installations across the Niger Delta, from where fresh hostages will be taken."
MEND asked oil workers to vacate flow stations, rig sites, platforms and other oil installations, in order not to lose their lives in avoidable circumstances.
MEND also described the Federal Government's amnesty offer to repentant militants as a failure, but the Special Adviser to President Goodluck Jonathan on Niger Delta Affairs, who also coordinates the amnesty programme, Mr. Timi Alaibe, insisted that that programme is a "huge success."
The Niger Delta Liberation Group (NDLG) has also said it will not surrender.
The group is led by "General" John Togo, the most wanted warlord on the Joint Task Force's list.
The group said last night that it would continue attacks on the JTF, oil facilities and other national assets.
Its spokesman, "Captain" Mark Anthony, said the NDLG, which had earlier made a four-point demand, would only surrender when the Federal Government convenes a conference of aggrieved ex-militants to discuss their grouse on the post-amnesty programme.
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