The leading
militant group operating in the oil rich region of southern Nigeria, the
Niger Delta Avengers, has written an open letter to Nigeria’s President
Muhammadu Buhari accusing him on planning genocide in the Niger Delta.
The letter, published Avengers’ website
on Monday, August 29, 2016, warned President Buhari of the
consequences of genocide in the Niger Delta, saying that “the world will
applaud you at The Hague”.
This letter comes on the heels of Buhari
threatening to deal with the militants in the region as he dealt with
Boko Haram at the Tokyo conference on African development in Kenya over
the weekend. “We call on President Muhammadu Buhari to put away the garb
of a stooge to the imperialists, whenever he speaks outside Nigeria,”
the militants said.
The militants advised the president to
emulate developed countries that he appears to be beholden to. “Dear
president, what makes those countries (Japan, Germany, France, USA,
Britain etc.) great is the ability of their governments to accommodate
internal protestations and conflicts for the greater good of their
nations over the years,” the letter said.
The open letter is reproduced below:
We call on President Muhammadu Buhari to put away the garb of a stooge to the imperialists, whenever he speaks outside Nigeria.
We have listened carefully and halted
hostilities in the Niger Delta; we expect a genuine and positive
attitude to restructuring and self-determination for every component
unit of Nigeria.
Dear president, what makes those
countries (Japan, Germany, France, USA, Britain etc.) great is the
ability of their governments to accommodate internal protestations and
conflicts for the greater good of their nations over the years.
Please stop presenting your government
as pawn to the web of military industrialists complex, whenever you
leave the shores of Nigeria.
Nigeria is not a one-man personal property we must have these talks every time if this union must continue to work as one.
The people of the Niger Delta have been
living here from time immemorial, so we have the secret of the terrain
and survival of amphibious operations. No amount of troop surge and
simulation exercises will make you win the oil war, you can only win
battles.
You cannot apply the might of the state
to restore the people’s confidence in your leadership when you cannot
differentiate between genuine demands and being mismanaged by
disorganized characters and tribal lords around you in your government
that are playing the court jesters role as well as counting the days
that is left in your four years term.
You can deceive the whole world but, we
cannot be deceived by the so glamorized ongoing military operations in
the creeks of Ijaw communities in the Delta coded ” Operation Crocodile
Smiles”… the world should know that with your pronouncement in Kenya and
your attitude to the military build up in the Niger Delta, it is
crystal clear that the military has nothing less than a pre-determined
genocide in Niger Delta and burn more already scared national resources
to the pockets of those that have failed to locate the missing Chibok
schoolgirls.
Conclusively, dear President Muhammadu
Buhari please also tell those foreign nations that you are always at
ease talking to, while refusing to listen to Nigerians that your troops
are about to carrying out extra-judicial killings in the Niger Delta in
violation of article four of the Geneva Convention with “OPERATION
CROCODILE SMILES”.
All sane minds knows the meaning of ”
CROCRODILE TEARS” so by code-naming your military operation CROCODILE
SMILES only betrays your motives and attitude to the whole world about
the Niger Delta question.
The whole world will surely applaud you in The Hague when you leave office!
This is not the Nigeria and the world of the 1980s and 1990s under General Sani Abacha and your watch.
Brig.Gen Mudoch Agbinibo
Spokeperson
Spokeperson
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