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■ Militants Demand Release Of Dasuki, Kanu, Defreeze Of Tompolo’s Account by Nobody: 3:21am On Jun 11, 2016 |
■ NDA on rampage,
blows up Agip Trunk
Line
■ Militants demand
release of Dasuki,
Kanu, defreeze of
Tompolo’s account
imminent showdown
looms in the Niger Delta
region between the Nige
rian Military and
members of the Niger
Delta Avengers, (NDA)
which has been
AN
responsible for the
bombing of oil installa
tions in Delta and Bayelsa
States. As the peace
move collapsed a few
days ago following the
bombing of a Chevron oil
facility, NDA followed it
with a letter to the
international community
calling for its intervention
in the crisis in the region.
Saturday Sun
investigations revealed
that the peace move hit
the rocks because of the
mutual distrust between
the Military authorities
and the sponsors of the
NDA.
Even though the Presi
dency announced a cease
fire in its military opera
tions and withdrawal of
soldiers from Niger Delta
communities, those
behind the NDA believed
that the Federal
Government is not
sincere but only using the
ceasefire as a bait to
unveil the sponsors of
the group According to
an insider in militant ac
tivities in the Niger Delta,
NDA would not want to
dialogue because it would
expose those behind it.
The source who insisted
that Government
Ekpemupolo aka
Tompolo is behind the
NDA stated that people
are aware that the
ceasefire is a
smokescreen to get Tom
polo and his boys.
He stated that with more
groups linked to Tompolo
springing up in the
region, the military would
have no option than to
clamp down on them and
arrest the situation. “The
peace move is not going
to work because all the
parties are aware of what
is happening. The Federal
Government is aware that
Tompolo is behind the
NDA and the militants
are also aware that the
so called ceasefire and
dialogue is to draw them
out and deal with them.
The rejection of the
peace deal by NDA by
bombing Chevron facility
is to tell you that the
NDA is not ready for
peace because they know
once they accept that,
their sponsors would be
known.
“All those other groups
springing up are all cre
ation of Tompolo and
NDA to cause distraction
and give the impression
that there is a
groundswell of agitation
in the Niger Delta region.
Joint Niger Delta
Liberation Force (JNDLF)
which threatened to
launch missiles. Niger
Delta Warriors and Niger
Delta Undertakers are all
created by NDA. They
said military should
vacate the region in 48
hours, the military did
not leave and nothing
happened. They said on
Tuesday June 7, they
would launch missiles
hitting buildings in Abuja,
Lagos and Kaduna,
nothing happened. They
said Tompolo has fled to
Libya in a desperate
move to shake off
intelligence officers from
his trail. All those groups
were just created to
cause panic and
blackmail the Federal
Government,” the source
said.
But signals that more
trouble looms in the
region flashed recently
with the emergence of
the Joint Niger Delta
Liberation Force, JNDLF.
Their seven point
demand worsened the al
ready tense situation in
the Niger Delta when it
ask for the release of Col.
Sambo Dasuki, the
embattled former
National Security Adviser.
The struggle of the two
Niger-Delta militant
camps, the Niger Delta
Avengers, NDA and the
Joint Niger Delta Libera
tion Force, JNDLF may be
similar in objective. But
there is something that
has aspects that are
illogical and inconsistent
with each of the groups.
Last week, both camps
issued statements that
disagreed. While NDA
affirmed its total
rejection for the peace
move by the Federal Gov
ernment, the JNDLF
wants the Governors of
the Niger Delta states to
dialogue with the Federal
Government on its
behalf. The group,
however, warned against
betrayal of the regions
demands as any form of
betrayal would be met
with dire consequences.
However, feelers from
both groups are that the
conflicting statements are
a bait intended to create
effects, using words to
imply that they are in op
position. Until two weeks
ago, JNDLF was a rela
tively unknown group in
the narrative of the Niger
Delta region compared to
the Movement For the
Emancipation of the Ni
ger Delta (MEND) and
the Niger Delta Avengers
(NDA). However its
threat to launch six
missiles and trigger the
forceful break-up of
Nigeria, brought a new
dimension to the fight for
the control of the re
sources in the area.
JNDLF which coined its
name from the defunct
Joint Revolutionary Coun
cil( JRC) headed by Cyn
thia Whyte and John
Togo led Niger Delta
Liberation Force is made
up of fringe members of
different militant camps
in Bayelsa whose leaders
eventually embrace the
Federal Government
amnesty.
The group which is being
run by General Akotebe
Darikoro, (Commander,
General Duties); General
Torunanaowei Latei,
(Creeks Network
Coordinator); General
Agbakakuro Owei-Tauro,
(Pipelines Bleeding Ex
pert) and General Pulokiri
Ebiladei, (Intelligence
Bureau) is based in Bay
elsa State with the lead
ers adopting pseudonym
to hide their identities. It
is believed that the group
has sympathy for ex-mil
itant leader, Government
Ekpemupolo aka
Tompolo and was
actually created to
further advance the
interest of the ex-militant
leader in his face off with
the Nigerian state.
The militant group which
said it would ceasefire
because of what it called
“genuine aspiration on
the part of Pharaoh of
Nigeria (Buhari)” and ne
gotiate with the Federal
Government not for mon
etary compensation but
for the development of
the Niger Delta region,
however, said, “we will
continue our struggle
without further warning
to the federal gov
ernment.
It made seven demands
to be met by the Federal
Government including the
defreezing of Tompolo’s
account. The group had
earlier claimed in a recent
statement that it would
hunt down Tompolo in
Libya where he fled to.
The seven-point demand
also include the
immediate release of the
Dr. Nnamdi Kanu, whose
releases, they said, had
been pronounced by the
court severally, the
beginning of what they
described as the only
Nigerian Maritime
University sited where
they claimed is the most
appropriate place,
Okerenkoko in Delta
State this 2015/2016
academic session and the
immediate
implementation of the
report of the 2014
National Conference
report, “failure of which
Nigeria will forcefully
break-up.”
The group also demand
ed that the oil-polluted
lands in the Niger Delta
must be cleaned up,
while compensation
should be paid to all oil-
producing communities,
for example, Chevron fire
outbreak, gas explosion
in Koluama, Bayelsa State
and Bonga Oil Spill in
2011, removal of
Brigadier General Paul
Boroh (rtd.) as an
Amnesty Coordinator by
replacing him with Dr.
Felix Tuodolo who has
been in the struggle of
non-violence since 1980
and who designed the
Amnesty programme,
The group claimed all the
attacks on oil and gas
pipelines in the region “is
because the Pharaoh of
Nigeria (Buhari) made a
childish statement that,
he will develop those
areas that gave him 95
percent votes during his
presidential election last
year,” adding that, “we
the Niger Delta people
only gave him 5 percent
hence we vowed that our
oil money will not be
used for the
development of any
other region.”
The JNDLF in a state
ment, however, offered
reasons why it did not
launch the six missiles it
threatened to release on
Tuesday June 7th. The
statement signed by
General Darikoro,
General Latei, General
Owei-Tauro and General
Ebiladei on behalf of the
Joint Revolutionary
Council claimed it shelved
the action because the
Federal Government and
the International
Community contacted it
through e-mail and
pleaded for the missiles
not to be launched.
A former leader of the
Movement for the Eman
cipation of the Niger
Delta (MEND) General
Africa Ukpariasia who
corroborated the claims
of the source noted that
any peace move without
the arrest of those
behind NDA would
continue to fail because
the intent of the militant
group is to blackmail the
Federal Government with
the bombing of oil instal
lations. Africa who had
earlier hinted of plans to
commence another
round of militancy in the
region with his exposure
of a training camp in Ese
Odo, Ondo State, also
maintained that former
ex-militant leaders and
the Federal Government
are aware that Tompolo
is behind NDA.
Though some ex-militant
leaders under the aegis
of Leadership, Peace and
Cultural Development
Initiative (LPCDI) led by
Wilson Reuben aka Gen
eral Pastor are rooting for
dialogue, Africa said ex-
militant leaders would
not allow the Federal Gov
ernment to dialogue with
criminals in the name of
NDA. “Don’t be deceived.
There is no way any
peace talks can hold
because everybody is
aware of what is
happening. Tompolo is
behind NDA and the Fed
eral Government is aware
of this. Even all those
groups coming up are all
his creation. We won’t
allow the Federal Gov
ernment to discuss with
criminals. We have ac
cepted amnesty and that
is all. Do they want
another amnesty? We
won’t have any talks with
criminals” he said.
With tough talks like this
couple with the
uncompromising stance
of the two militant
groups, it is clear that the
show down between the
militant groups and the
Federal Government is
unavoidable.
http://sunnewsonline.com/new-militant-group-asks-fg-to-reclaim-bakassi/ |
Re: ■ Militants Demand Release Of Dasuki, Kanu, Defreeze Of Tompolo’s Account by Nobody: 3:35am On Jun 11, 2016 |
funny biafrans 1 Like |
Re: ■ Militants Demand Release Of Dasuki, Kanu, Defreeze Of Tompolo’s Account by lordizak(m): 3:52am On Jun 11, 2016 |
Maybe they don't know they are dealing with Buhari. I just laugh my brothers. 1 Like |
Re: ■ Militants Demand Release Of Dasuki, Kanu, Defreeze Of Tompolo’s Account by proeast(m): 6:00am On Jun 11, 2016 |
Can such country like ours ever develop even in a million years?? |
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