The new militant
group in the Niger Delta, the Niger Delta Avengers, has given 12 point
demands to the federal government, insisting that if the federal
government wants peace in the region and an end to the blowing of the
oil installations, it should grant the demands without fail.
In a statement issued by its
spokesperson, Mr. Mudoch Agbinibo, on Friday May 6, 2016, the group
which claimed responsibility for the recent attack on the oil
installations in the Niger Delta, said the decision is in the hands of
the federal government to either fulfill their demands or risk the
continuous destruction of oil installations and making Nigeria
ungovernable for President Muhammadu Buhari.
Among the 12 demands is the immediate
implementation of the 2014 confab report which it believed would help in
restructuring Nigeria to the demand of all ethnic groups in the
country.
It also said President Buhari, the DSS
and Timipre Sylva should apologise to the people of the Niger Delta
region and the family of DSP Alamieyeseigha for killing him with
intimidation and harassment because of his party affiliation.
The group also said the ownership of oil
blocks must reflect 60% for the oil producing people and 40% for the
non-oil producing people of the region as the oil in the Niger Delta
cannot be carted away to feed other parts of the nation which has no
contribution in any way to the national treasury.
It said the Maritime University sited at
Okerenkoko which the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi has
cancelled should be reversed with Amaechi apologizing to the people of
the Niger Delta for the cancellation.
It further said the Ogoni land which the
federal government under former President Olusegun Obasanjo destroyed
and indeed all polluted Niger Delta lands must be cleaned up and
compensation paid accordingly.
Also, the group said the demand for
Biafra should be granted and the Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous
People of Biafra, be released unconditionally.
It called for the sustenance and proper
funding of the amnesty programme, even as it said in line with President
Buhari’s corruption fight, all APC members indicted for corruption or
are adjudged to be corrupt should be tried and made to face the wrath of
the law as the PDP members.
“We are using this medium to ask all
Niger Deltans to take the war to all oil installations in their various
communities because this is your war”.
The group said if the Buhari-led federal
government refused to liberate the Niger Delta, what happened to
Pharaoh and the Egyptians will happen to Nigeria. It says NDA has also
devised plans to activate its elite unit the Niger Delta Airforce code
strike team 1, as its plan B to cripple the country’s economy.
“Failing to heed to our demands, the
Nigeria state is seeing what is happening to Chevron and Shell, the
Nigerian elites will suffer in same vein. Know that Chevron and Shell is
just the beginning If the International oil companies and federal
government of Nigeria thinks the Niger Delta Avengers are criminal as
they claim and fails to meet our demands”.
“To the Nigerian military we understand
you doing your job but in the process of doing your job remember you
have family back home waiting for your return. The questions you have to
ask yourselves are; does the Nigeria state worth your life? Does the
Nigeria state worth dying for?”
“Some of you are our brothers avoiding
you is not sign of being lazy. If you dare harass our people we are
going to face you. Especially, if you harass any community in search of
Avengers”.
“We will come after you and it’s going
to be bloody and merciless, we are the Niger Delta avengers, you
(Nigerian Military) are not going to see us coming but we will get you”
the group said.
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