The military and Niger Delta militants yesterday agreed to a ceasefire deal to stop hostilities in the region. This means all the groups will henceforth stop bombing of oil pipelines. The Niger Delta Avengers (NDA) had carried out attacks on oil pipelines resulting in drop in nation’s revenues.
This is even as the Movement for the Emancipation of Niger Delta (MEND) agreed to back the Chief Edwin Clark-led negotiating team to resolve the regions crisis.
It also claimed it had secured some concessions from Federal Government which the military denied yesterday. Last week, the militant groups approached Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka to represent them in the negotiation.
MEND has accepted to work with Clark team while disbanding the Odein Ajumogbobia-led negotiating Aaron Team 2.
Confirming the concession, MEND said in a statement issued by the group’s spokesman, Jomo Gbomo that the Federal Government has made some concessions to the group. “In fact, we have so far been able to secure a number or concessions, some of which include, but are not limited to the release of political prisoners. We expect that Chief Clark and his team shall follow through with the rest of the dialogue and peace process,” MEND said.
The disbandment of the Ajumogbobia team followed the decision of MEND to accede to the request of other militant groups led by ND that the foremost Ijaw leader, Chief Clark should lead discussions on behalf of the Niger Delta region.
MEND which had initially rejected the request, but succumbed to pressure and dispatched its representative, Timipa Jenkins Okpomipere to meet with Clark and had positions harmonised for a united front to negotiate with the Federal Government.
Gbomo, in the eight-paragraph statement, also disclosed that following the disbandment of the team, its Operation Moses, supposed to involve a tour of Niger Delta states to sensitise the people on the need for peace will not hold.
The MEND’s spokesman, who thanked the team for honouring its invitation stated that the group has nominated Ogoni civil rights activist, Mr Ledum Mitee, Mr Ibanga Isine and Okponipere to join Clark in articulating the position of Niger Deltans.
MEND also disclosed that it would be monitoring proceedings on the talks, adding that it reserves the right to pull out its representatives after six months if it is not satisfied with the progress of the talks.
The group also warned the members of the Bayelsa State Waterways Security Task force and those it called their military collaborators to respect the on-going ceasefire.
It cautioned one of its former leaders, General Africanus Ukparasia not to venture anywhere near its camp as its commanders have been told to treat him as an enemy.
Nevertheless, MEND is compelled to categorically warn that it is not yet uhuru. Clark-led new initiative should realise that MEND was already in preliminary talks with the Federal Government as confirmed by President Muhammadu Buhari.
All efforts to reach General Africanus on phone were futile. He has also not replied the text message sent to his phone. But one of aides who doesn’t want to be named said the Waterways Security Task Force would not be deterred in its efforts to rid Bayelsa and by extension the Niger Delta region of criminals masquerading as freedom fighters.
According to him, MEND has ceased from existence since 2008 when the commanders embraced the Federal Government amnesty, noting that those claiming to be members of MEND are impostors.
Meanwhile, the Akwa Ibom State Government yesterday disagreed with the Federal Government over the actual status of protesting ex-agitators from the state who alleged alienation from the Presidential Amnesty Programme.
Commissioner for Information and Communications, Mr. Aniekan Umanah, appealed to the Amnesty Office to treat the ex-agitators from the state fairly, saying that they were duly captured in the programme like their counterparts from the other parts of Niger Delta.
Umanah spoke on the heels of a statement credited to the Coordinator of the Amnesty Office and Special Adviser to the President on Niger Delta, Brig. Gen. Paul Boroh (retd), urging the state government to engage and empower some ex-agitators from the state who may not have been captured in the programme.
Meanwhile, a public affairs analyst and former commissioner with the Delta State Oil Producing Communities Development Commission (DESOPADEC), Sir Ken Okolugbo, has praised the decision of leaders and activists in the Niger Delta to line up behind the Clark team.
In denying the purported concession yesterday, a top military source who does not want to be mentioned in print, however told Daily Sun, that even though the government initiated the dialogue with the militants, to find a lasting solution to the incessant combing of oil pipelines, it was yet to make any specific decision.
The source described the claim that government had agreed to release some perceived political prisoners from the region as lies.
The source said those spreading the rumour are only doing so to divert security operations and the ongoing military raid to flush out militants from the region which has been intensified.
According to the source, “the government cannot just release political prisoners from the region who are in jail for heinous offences, this is because the government just want to be careful and not take chances.”


Source : http://ijebuloaded.com/news-niger-delta-militants-agree-stop-bombing-oil-pipelines/

Ftc!

*sips on my bottle of cognac while reading the news*

There is bomb in the head of the person above me! How did u manage to get there first before me

Good for them...if not,it will only take the military little time to kill them all.

waleadex:
Good for them...if not,it will only take the military little time to kill them all.

You see your life?

Why must you always disgrace your family?

Smh

Lalasticlala Mynd44 your attention needed

Davash222:




You see your life?

Why must you always disgrace your family?

Smh

You're such a rude lad. I made my submission and I expect you to make your submission reasonably too. You don't have to quote me unreasonably so much that you mentioned my family. Pls grow up!

Dem no dey tell blind man say rain dey fall!!!

one by one dem don dey calm down

Thus is a good news to whole country

OK oo

This is big ups to our security boys. MEND and the Okah boys killed the NDA with just two press releases and passed on huge security intelligence to The Nigerian Security agencies, we knew it was just a matter of time before all of them get killed by the soldiers or rounded up to face prosecution. I think government should still go ahead and prosecute all of them and their political sponsors including GEJ (imagine a former president backing people to bring down his own nation) who was alleged to have even given them the name 'Avenger' for economic crimes and murder of our innocent soldiers.
Anything short of this will mean that crime pays. These Ijaw boys messed up Big time and in fact, they made most Nigerians regret the day GEJ came to power on the trust of Nigerians in the North and South.

The fear of the smiling crocodile is the begining of wisdom.

Businessideas:
This is big ups to our security boys. MEND and the Okah boys killed the NDA with just two press releases and passed on huge security intelligence to The Nigerian Security agencies, we knew it was just a matter of time before all of them get killed by the soldiers or rounded up to face prosecution. I think government should still go ahead and prosecute all of them and their political sponsors including GEJ (imagine a former president backing people to bring down his own nation) who was alleged to have even given them the name 'Avenger' for economic crimes and murder of our innocent soldiers.
Anything short of this will mean that crime pays. These Ijaw boys messed up Big time and in fact, they made most Nigerians regret the day GEJ came to power on the trust of Nigerians in the North and South.

when you mean south what do u mean I hope ekiti state is not included

Why nau? It's not enough nau. Pls continue o. In fact you keep bombing until the whole region is nuked to the ground.

This is good news
I guess operation crocodile smile is haunting them
Let's see how it pans out
Fingers crossed

Who bombing epp

Businessideas:
This is big ups to our security boys. MEND and the Okah boys killed the NDA with just two press releases and passed on huge security intelligence to The Nigerian Security agencies, we knew it was just a matter of time before all of them get killed by the soldiers or rounded up to face prosecution. I think government should still go ahead and prosecute all of them and their political sponsors including GEJ (imagine a former president backing people to bring down his own nation) who was alleged to have even given them the name 'Avenger' for economic crimes and murder of our innocent soldiers.
Anything short of this will mean that crime pays. These Ijaw boys messed up Big time and in fact, they made most Nigerians regret the day GEJ came to power on the trust of Nigerians in the North and South.

You'll never have sense in your life, GEJ will keep giving you nightmares and lastly, God has giving up on you

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The combo of Cynthia Whyte's revelations and Operation Crocodile Laughter has really dealt a deadly blow to these guys..

Whatever it is, thank you for accepting peace.

they are tired

think is a big shame for the njer delta pple to come out at this time to say that the federal government has not done anything good for their region,imagine how they forgot so soon that the whole country was under their control for almost a decade but did not make used of such opportunity. I think your problem lie wding u,by nw janathan sul be looking for wia to hide because of the shame he has brought upon his pple,by concentrating on making few individual richer than the region instead of providing basic amenities he gave them weapons to create more havoc to their region . Jonathan sul have done better . but all hope is not lost Jonathan is still alive u can still go to him and ask him why he refused to do all this things that the pple of njer delta are asking the present government to do for the region which is impossible,With the way janathan has embezzled the whole country's account with some few individuals. I think the best thing the njer deltans sul be doing by now is to beg the present government . using weapons bought by some individual to destroy your region is not the best options for now give Buhari more time to settle down,and for him to be able to clear the mess done by your own person, if you do this it will help u and ur unborn children. GOD BLESS NIGERIA

Davash222:




You see your life?

Why must you always disgrace your family?

Smh

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The one you are doing to your family is what

twilightdreams:


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The one you are doing to your family is what

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