The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) has alleged that a member of the National Dialogue Committee, Mr Tony Uranta recently constituted and inaugurated by President Goodluck Jonathan to work out the framework for a national dialogue contacted it to solicit support for the confab.

The militant group in a statement signed by its spokesman, Jomo Gbomo said its scepticism and suspicion may not be farfetched about antecedent of Mr Uranta whom it said had campaign repeatedly that MEND has seized to exist.

According to Jomo Gbomo, Mr Uranta approached the group to solicit for its support because a rejection coming from a South-South body like MEND is an embarrassment to the presidency.

Read the Full Statement Below:
The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) was recently contacted by a member of the National Dialogue Advisory Committee, Mr Tony Uranta, soliciting our understanding and support for the proposed National Confab stating that a rejection coming from a South-South body like MEND is an embarrassment to the presidency.

Ironically, this solicitation is coming from the same man who has been campaigning repeatedly that MEND seized to exist after the Niger Delta Amnesty fraud.

Our scepticism and suspicion of the so-called National Dialogue may also have to do with the antecedents and lack of integrity of Mr Tony Uranta himself.

Some hours after we took responsibility for our symbolic October 01, 2010 twin car bomb blasts in Abuja, Mr Tony Uranta sent a text message to Mr Henry Okah, asking him to reach out to me (Jomo Gbomo) to retract our earlier claim of responsibility “as the government of Goodluck Jonathan wants to put the blame on some Northern elements” (specifically, former head of state and 2011 presidential aspirant, General Ibrahim Babangida and Mallam Nasir el Rufai, were the targets for the blame).

It was in anticipation that MEND was contacted by Mr Henry Okah, the president Goodluck Jonathan confidently came on national television that night to absorb our group from the attack.

Mr Tony Uranta was also involved in collecting 50,000 US Dollars bribe on behalf of the Save Nigeria Group which led to an embarrassing scandal at the time.

The same people who managed to hoodwink and entire nation into believing that over 30,000 men and women in the Niger Delta, now requiring an annual training/rehabilitation budget of over 30Billion Naira, took up arms. How can the government correlate its display of less than three thousand weapons (most of which were donated by the military for the disarmament show), with more than thirty thousand (30) so-called repentant militants. Were the rest fighting with sticks?

Millions of hard working Nigerians remains unemployed, our education system is going down the drain with strikes, and the country is getting increasingly full of educated derelicts while the government shares out billions of naira monthly on miscreants, criminals and con men who claim to have been freedom fighters. This scam was designed by people in government such as Timi Alaibe who created ghost fighters with the connivance of those at the highest level.

The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) hereby passes a vote of no-confidence.

http://pheesayor..com/2013/10/press-release-mend-exposes-national_11.html

see source sef.. Smh

Niggmatic: see source sef.. Smh

very soon people will be quoting nl as their source

NDI IGBO
UNITED IS D WAY
IT IS NOT ABOUT RIGHT OR WRONG
ITS ALL ABOUT SELF PRESERVATION

@OP, this your source na hmmm o!

Mr. MEND, now that this Uranta is "a fraud", abeg, which way foward?

*Blowing up pipelines, thereby further polluting our environment?
*destabilizing the already shaky economy, throwing more individuals into the labour market (that you complain is already saturated?)
*how difficult is it for you sir, to hunt down these corrupt individuals?
*or are you saying that putting a bullet in their heads requires more risks, logistics and finance than blowing up oil installations?


I wish MEND was on NL for some answers.

kaeyame: @OP, this your source na hmmm o!

Mr. MEND, now that this Uranta is "a fraud", abeg, which way foward?

*Blowing up pipelines, thereby further polluting our environment?
*destabilizing the already shaky economy, throwing more individuals into the labour market (that you complain is already saturated?)
*how difficult is it for you sir, to hunt down these corrupt individuals?
*or are you saying that putting a bullet in their heads requires more risks, logistics and finance than blowing up oil installations?


I wish MEND was on NL for some answers.

MEND has made these things known, will they also investigate, arrest and prosecute Don't feel like arguing today biko

A press release, forget the messenger and deal with the message

Niggmatic: see source sef.. Smh

pheesayor: A press release, forget the messenger and deal with the message

would you take the message of a prophet seriously if he was a known womanizer or lier?
who is jomo gbomo that expects me to believe him over Tony?
the source for the OPEN defense na wa?

pheesayor:
MEND has made these things known, will they also investigate, arrest and prosecute Don't feel like arguing today biko

Yea, MEND has made these things known...from what moral stand point?
Its just like boko haram waking up tomorrow and "make some things known"

Tell me what MEND has "done" to help fix the Niger Delta they have been "moving" to "emancipate"

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careytommy:
would you take the message of a prophet seriously if he was a known womanizer or lier?
who is jomo gbomo that expects me to believe him over Tony?
the source for the OPEN defense na wa?

But you believe without doubt when Shekau releases any video even when the SSS claims it is not real? Why do some of you cloud your faces to realities especially when GEJ is involved?

kaeyame:
Yea, MEND has made these things known...from what moral stand point?
Its just like boko haram waking up tomorrow and "make some things known"

Tell me what MEND has "done" to help fix the Niger Delta they have been "moving" to "emancipate"

But when a fictitious name named Buhari as one of their intermidierer with the FG all of you were quick to associate him with the group. DOUBLE STANDARD! How do some of you talk to your selves while alone?

Wsdm:
But you believe without doubt when Shekau releases any video even when the SSS claims it is not real? Why do some of you cloud your faces to realities especially when GEJ is involved?

Wsdm:
But when a fictitious name named Buhari as one of their intermidierer with the FG all of you were quick to associate him with the group. DOUBLE STANDARD! How do some of you talk to your selves while alone?

well said