Abuja — A militant group, the Grand Alliance of the Niger Delta has threatened to attack oil installations in the country...

if the federal government fails to repeal the Land Use Decree and some other laws that entirely withhold ownership of natural resources from the people of the Niger Delta.

The Grand Alliance of the Niger Delta, which issued this threat on Tuesday in Port Harcourt, also said it would target the Rivers State Government House and the homes of selected Rivers people for destruction if the state government goes on with its plan "to displace people that live on the waterfronts in Port Harcourt".

President General, Abiye Toru and the secretary-general, Commander Samuel Ebiye at a press yesterday, said the Niger Delta issue had gone beyond the era of negotiations as several negotiations had been held without much progress.

The militant leaders said they have no confidence in the presidential Niger Delta stakeholders' forum, which they said would be attended by the wrong people, who according to them are responsible for the problems of the region.

"Mr. President knows what to do to repeal these laws; these are laws that have enslaved us. We cannot be going for stakeholders meetings when we still have all these obnoxious laws. We don't want to negotiate; the government knows what to do, let them do it."