A militant group,
Niger Delta Revolutionary
Crusaders, NDRC, based in
Bayelsa State, Wednesday,
declared a two-week
armistice within which it
urged President Muhammadu
Buhari to review his hard-
line stance to consequential
dialogue with militants and
first-rate leaders of Niger
Delta to prevent total
devastation of crude oil
export facilities.
This came as the Niger Delta
Avengers, NDA, accused
ExxonMobil of telling lies
about the bombing of its Qua
Iboe 48-inch crude export
pipeline on Monday evening.
Spokesperson of the militant
group, self-appointed Brig
Gen Mudoch Agbinibo, stated:
“ExxonMobil can deny and
fool the general public about
their Export Pipeline blown,
yesterday (Monday). How
long can they lie to their
investors? Just in matter of
days, the whole world will
see the truth. Qua Iboe 48”
crude oil export pipeline is
down, so said the
Avengers.”
NDRC, which recently blew up
the Brass Creek Manifold,
the largest in West Africa,
situated in Peretorugbene,
Ekeremor local government
area, Bayelsa state, said:
“With clear evaluation of the
happenings and advice of
well- meaning Nigerians and
Niger Delta stakeholders, we
hereby declare a two- week
ceasefire for a sincere and
proper dialogue.”
Spokesperson of the group,
WOI Izon-Ebi, said in a
statement: “We want the
Federal Government to
consult distinguished
personalities, royal fathers
and chiefs of the Niger Delta
communities. Government
should disassociate itself
from negotiating with political
jobbers in Abuja, but come
down to the Niger Delta
communities.”
“If after the two weeks of
ceasefire, nothing meaningful
happens, we have no option
but to redirect our next
phase of action to the
exporting terminals to stop
total export of our
resources.
“We hereby call on Mr.
President to do the needful
by being sincere to himself
and Nigerians to engage in
meaningful dialogue to
ensure a lasting peace in the
Niger Delta and Nigeria in
particular,” it added.
NDRC asserted: “We have
lived all our lives as victims
and like fishes constantly
immersed in pools of
pollution, so it is no longer
new to us,” adding, “Come to
talk about explosion and
degradation it does not start
today, it has been for the
past fifty (50) years. That is
why the colonial masters
pointed it out categorically
clear to Nigerians before
independence that the Ijaws
and the Ogoni communities
are priority areas of
concentration and
development by the Nigerian
government.”
“All what we need is a clean
environment devoid of
pollution, development, good
drinking water, motor-able
roads cutting across our
communities, electricity,
universities, resource
control,” it said.
The militant group, however,
expressed reservation
about the Minister of
Transport, Rt Hon Rotimi
Amaechi, saying, “He is
taking his hatred against
former President, Dr.
Goodluck Jonathan and Ijaw
nation too far, which is too
bad for the peace and unity
of Niger Delta and Nigeria in
general.”
“Maybe Mr. Rotimi Amaechi,
the current minister of
Transport is not a good
historian; otherwise, he
should have known that the
three higher institutions in
his Ikwerre land except
Rivers State Polytechnic
were established by an Ijaw
man, Chief Diette Spiff, the
then military administrator of
Rivers State. They are
Rivers State University of
Science and Technology and
University of Port-Harcourt,"
NDRC said.
“Why should a man that has
three universities in his
land, Ikwerre, recommend the
scrapping of the one and
only Maritime University in
Ijaw land, which if fully
operational will create
qualified manpower to man
the petroleum and maritime
sectors. Is Rotimi Amaechi an
instrument in the hands of
Niger Delta oppressors
manipulating him in order to
achieve their Northern
agenda? The militant group
asked.

maupe:
www.vanguardngr.com/2016/07/pipeline-bombings-militant-group-announces-2-wk-ceasefire/

DropShot:
I guess they're also getting tired and bored of the senseless bombings.

TheFreeOne:
It is easier and preferable for Buhari to develop another ear infection than visit the Niger delta.

The old sheriffat is afraid of the new sheriffs (NDA) in town.

Izonpikin:
....but our president suppose don visit the core niger delta since wey e become president na..abi person go teach buhari how to be president of a nation??....

DropShot:

You mean he should have dared the militants to visit Ogoni and let many innocent lives get wasted in the process just because some misguided scavengers were bent on attempting the impossible mission of killing the president?

If PMB refuses to visit the ND throughout his first tenure, he'd be right. It's how they've chosen to be related with.

Izonpikin:
no....buhari shoulda visited the core Niger delta long before the emergence of the NDA...The guy just doesn't give a damn about other zones except his north...

obiageIi:
Vanguard, official mouthpeice of niger delta militant, ipob and Shiites.

OZAOEKPE:

Says who?

OZAOEKPE:

Says who?