The Nigerian cell of the Anonymous collective has continued its ongoing campaign against government corruption issuing a statement listing its demands.
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The Nigerian cell of the Anonymous collective has continued its ongoing campaign against government corruption issuing a statement listing its demands.

Sent to the International Business Times on Tuesday via email the statement has since been re-posted on Pastebin - indicating that unlike the recent Anonymous Finnish bomb threat, it is likely authentic.

In it the collective promised to continue mounting its ongoing series of cyber assaults against the Nigerian government should its demands for "justice" and an end to violence against protesters not be met. Specifically Anonymous Nigeria's demands were six-fold:

"WE DEMAND THAT YOU CUT THE COST OF GOVERNMENT BY 60%

"WE DEMAND THAT YOU ELIMINATE WASTE IN GOVERNMENT

"WE DEMAND THAT YOU TACKLE CORRUPTION AND POLITICAL PATRONAGE

"WE DEMAND THAT YOU REDUCE THE PUMP PRICE OF FUEL TO N65

"WE DEMAND THAT YOU FIND OUT AND PROSECUTE MEMBERS OF THE FUEL CABAL," read Anonymous' statement. Later adding the final demand:

"WE DEMAND AN IMMEDIATE END TO THE KILLING OF INNOCENT PROTESTERS"

The statement follows the collective's unified and ongoing support of all Occupy movements. Though the root cause of the Occupy movement is difficult to discern, the earliest call-to-arms stemmed from a blog post in Adbusters magazine.

Inspired by the Arab Spring and Spain's Democracia real YA platform, Adbusters called for all like-minded individuals unhappy with the current global political and economic system to march on Wall Street and mount an ongoing sit-in-protest.

The post quickly captured the imagination of several groups, leading to the #occupywallstreet hash-tag trending on Twitter. The movement gained significant mainstream attention outside of Adbusters' native U.S. base when the Anonymous collective took notice and publicly voiced its support.

Reiterating Adbusters' post, Anonymous issued the above video on its AnonOps website citing a series of undisclosed actions perpetrated by "corrupt" governments and corporations as its motivation for the sit-in.

Since Adbusters' and Anonymous' call-to-arms the Occupy movement has spread to cities across the world, seeing citizens pitch tents in public squares and mount sit-in-protests against the world's current political and economic systems. In all the campaigns Anonymous has openly voiced its support for the movement, publicising its live video feeds and reporting any incidents of police violence against protesters.

The Nigerian cell of Anonymous has followed this pattern, publicly voicing its support and reporting any incidents of violence against Occupy protesters. The group has already taken credit for identifying the deaths of in-excess of 10 participants in the Occupy Nigeria protest. Ending its statement Anonymous Nigeria promised it would continue its "peaceful" protest - many Anons list identify themselves as pacifists and are hostile to any and all acts of physical violence.

A full chronicle of Anonymous' previous Occupy activities can be found at the International Business Times UK's, "2011 The Year of the Hacktivist: When Anonymous Finally Grew-Up," summary.

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