The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) counters the false
claims by the military Joint task Force that it recovered a cache of heavy weapons
from two abandoned transit camps of militants in Delta state.

If the truth be told, the military is lying to justify the failure of it's operation
to apprehend any militant or seize any weapons after its reckless and irresponsible
use of aerial arsenal on defenseless women, children, the elderly and those too sick
to escape.

Out thoughts go to the pregnant women and some disabled individuals killed.

The level of wanton destruction of the properties of civilians and the search in
hospitals for young injured men is borne out of frustration that the key objective
was defeated.

We promise to pay back the oil industry and the government the same measure of
destruction that was meted out to the innocent civilians by this cowardly act.

Jomo Gbomo