Order Northerners, South Westerners Out Of

Region

Chukwudi Nweje, Daniel Abia

Lagos/P/Harcourt

Adaka Boro Avengers (ABA) said on Sunday
that it had concluded arrangements with other
militant groups to declare the Niger Delta
region an independent republic three weeks
from today, that is August 1.

The militant group also gave the Federal
Government an ultimatum to withdraw its
personnel and establishment from the region
before the date of its declaration of
independence.

It also ordered all northerners and people of
the South West to vacate its territory.
In the same vein, the Ultimate Warriors of
Niger Delta, another militant group, said it has
rejected the leadership of the Movement for
the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND).

ABA, in a statement issued by General Edmos
Ayayeibo, its spokesperson, mandated the
Federal Government to use the three weeks’
notice to “move out all military personnel and
all government agencies out of the Niger
Delta,” and warned that “failure will lead to
destruction of military barracks and personnel.”

“We, the Adaka Boro Avengers and all the
freedom fighters in the Niger Delta region have
met and come to a conclusion that we are
declaring the Niger Delta Republic three weeks
from today July 18, 2016.

“So we are by this notice calling on the
Nigerian government to move out all military
personnel and all government agencies out of
the Niger Delta. Failure will lead to destruction
of military barracks and personnel.

“We are, also, by this notice calling on our
fathers, mothers, brothers and sisters living in
the northern parts of Nigeria to return home
immediately.

“We are also warning northerners and
westerners to leave the Niger Delta region
immediately within three weeks from now, for
their own good.

“If they refuse to heed to our warning, we will
use so many as example in the Niger Delta
region on the due date.

“We are telling the Nigerian government that
enough is enough and we are taking our
independence by force. We have our foreign
backers, so we are not afraid of the Nigerian
government but ready for total war.
“The inhuman treatment given to us by
Nigerian government is enough. We can no
longer withstand the suffering of our Niger
Delta people. They should not take us for
fools.”

The Ultimate Warriors, in a statement on
Saturday, had told MEND to stop parading
itself as the leader of the militant groups in the
region and vowed to continue with the
destruction of oil installations.

The group said: “We have said it before that
we have nothing to lose on the bombing of oil
pipelines because our mission is to ground the
oil economy if our demands are not met.
“We have said we are doing what we are doing
to prod the government to renegotiate the
control of our oil resources and other related
matters.

“We have watched with chagrin the recent
utterance by President Muhammadu Buhari and
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and all we are
see in them are double standard and lips
service to the demand of the groups as its
concerns the Niger Delta question and that is
why all of our units and affiliates have not fully
heeded to our ceasefire.”

However, MEND urged Niger Delta activists,
militants and other agitators to be united in
finding a solution to the region’s crisis.

MEND said they needed to be united and
speak with one voice to channel their
grievances and demands to the Federal
Government through the Niger Delta Dialogue
and Contact Group (NDDCG).

“All aggrieved minor militant groups, all those
so-called Niger Delta activists, elders, tribal
assemblies, sycophants and parasites amongst
others, who have suddenly found their voice
after six years of a criminal conspiracy of
silence during the neglect and misrule of
former President Goodluck Jonathan, and who
are now clamouring for recognition, relevance
and inclusion in the ongoing Niger Delta peace
process should contact and channel their
grievances and demands through the NDDCG,
which will act as their representative.

“The subject matter of the discourse centers
around the forthcoming dialogue with the
Federal Government on the resolution of the
current Niger Delta crisis and the imperative for
the entire Niger Delta region to unite and speak
with a single voice under the single umbrella
of the MEND Aaron Team 2 dialogue and
peace initiative led by Mr. Odein Ajumogobia
(SAN),” MEND said.

As at last count at least four new militant
groups have emerged in the region.
They include the Niger Delta Avengers;

Asawana Deadly Force; the Joint Niger Delta
Liberation Force (JNDLF) and the Adaka Boro
Avengers.

The Adaka Boro Avengers had on Tuesday,
July 5, indicated that it would team up with the
Niger Delta Avengers (NDA) to attack more oil
installations in the Niger Delta.
The activities of these militant groups have
negatively affected Nigeria’s crude oil
production and sales.

As at May 2016, Nigeria’s oil production had
dropped to 1.65m barrels a day, the lowest
output in 22 years, as a result of resurgence of
militant activities in the Niger Delta region.
Production began sliding in February when the
Niger Delta Avengers claimed an attack on an
underwater pipeline running that forced Royal
Dutch Shell to shut down its Forcados export
terminal.

That singular action knocked off at least
250,000 bpd.

Shell had also declared force majeure on
exports of Bonny Light crude after a leak on
one of its trunk lines in the Delta.

Also, Chevron shut a platform after an attack
also claimed by the Niger Delta Avengers.
The Federal Government last week Wednesday
said it was not possible to implement in full
the nation’s 2016 budget of N6.06 trillion.

In offering explanation on why this has to be
so, it stated that the activities of militants in
the Niger Delta region were responsible for the
unfortunate situation.

According to the government, the nation is
presently losing on a daily basis a quantum of
about 40 percent to 50 percent of oil
production projection due to the activities of
the militants.

Mr. Babachir David Lawal, Secretary to the
Government of the Federation (SGF), brought
the unpleasant message to the Senate.

He said the oil benchmark of the Federal
Government has been drastically dislocated
and grossly affected by activities of militants,
lamenting that at a time the country was
producing about 800,000 barrels per day.

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After Adaka Boro Avengers conclude their 15 minutes of fame in the spotlight, I hope we don't have the turn 9f Diepreye Alamieyesiegha Avengers too.

Every family in the South South is now a militant group of its own, with its own General, from Boyloaf to Bigloaf to Agegeloaf.

The Somalia situation of infinite warlords will be child's play to what the NigerDelta militants will cause.

I hope the South South peoples resident in the SouthWest and North are already packing their own bags too.

This country sef!