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"A hitherto unknown group, the “Urhobo Revolutionary Army," which claims to be committed to radically redressing years of socio-economic and political injustice against the people of the Urhobo ethnic nationality, yesterday said  it was kick-starting its own struggle in the Niger-Delta region.

It said it had aligned itself with  different rebel groups in the region, including  Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger-Delta (MEND) headed by Mr. Henry Okah, the militant group led by Mr. Government Ekpemupolo (alias Tompolo) and the Alhaji Dokubo Asari-led Niger-Delta Peoples Volunteer Force (NDPVF).  It advised all oil and gas companies, banks and other businesses operating in Urhobo-land to enter into  working relationship with the nascent group within 30 days, but was silent on the implication of their failure to heed the advice. In a telephonic message, the group said  its well-reasoned decision to join the fray  had been spotlighted by last Thursday’s “blowing up of the Utorogun Gas Plant” pipeline in Ughelli, which is operated by the Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC). The group accepted responsibility for the attack on the country’s major gas production plant, which incidentally is located within the geographical area of the Urhobo in Delta State.
Disruption of supply of gas to the Nigerian Gas Company (NGC), a subsidiary of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), occasioned by the said attack has reportedly led to  drastic cut in  electricity supply by the Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN).  However, the Urhobo Revolutionary Army said  the Urhobo people would “no longer accept the present docility and non-involvement of the Urhobo Nation in the Niger-Delta struggle,” adding, “we condemn with all seriousness, the sell-out and sit-on-the-fence attitude of certain Urhobo leaders who were allegedly pursuing selfish interest, rather than the “Urhobo collective interest." The emergence of the new  group might be the latest threat to the successful implementation of the presidential amnesty that kicked off formally on August 6, 2009.  Meanwhile, an Urhobo youth group, the Urhobo Peoples League, condemned the Minster for Petroleum Resources, Dr Rilwanu Lukman, and the Federal Government for the decision to suspend upgrading of the Petroleum Training Institute (PTI) Effurun, saying the Delta Steel Company (DSC) Aladja, had  in the past suffered similar fate in the hands of government .