President Muhammadu Buhari, on Friday, urged militants in the Niger Delta to drop their confrontational stance and work with his government to review the Amnesty Programme initiated by the Late ex-President Umaru Yar’Adua Administration.

President Buhari assured oil companies operating in the Niger Delta that the Federal Government is taking all necessary actions to protect strategic assets in the region from vandals and criminals.
Speaking at a meeting with the Global Director (Upstream) of the Royal Dutch Shell Group, Andrew Brown, President Buhari said that he had directed the Chief of Naval Staff to reorganise and strengthen the military Joint Task Force (JTF) in the Niger Delta to deal effectively with the resurgence of militancy and the sabotage of oil installations.

The President told Mr. Brown that the operations of the JTF were also being enhanced with increased support and cooperation from the United States and Europe in the areas of training, intelligence, equipment and logistics. He said: “We have to be very serious with the situation in the Niger Delta because it threatens the national economy.
I assure you that everything possible will be done to protect personnel and oil assets in the region.”

The president urged aggrieved persons, militants and communities in the Niger Delta to drop their confrontational stance and work with those who have been charged by the Federal Government to review the Amnesty Programme initiated by the Yar’Adua Administration for the benefit of all parties. President Buhari praised the resilience and staying power of Shell in Nigeria despite the operational challenges of the environment .

He urged the company to do its best to end gas flaring in the Niger Delta quickly and produce more gas for electricity generation to support manufacturing and job creation in the country. Mr. Brown had appealed for an urgent solution to rising crime and militancy in the Niger Delta. The Shell Executive also dispelled speculations that the company was pulling out of Nigeria. He said that contrary to such speculations, Shell was currently in discussions with the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) on new joint oil and gas projects.

: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/05/dont-confront-administration-buhari-warns-niger-delta-militants/

They bombed another oil platform in Delta state while Buhari is still busy talking about amnesty,forgetting that globalization have opened the eyes of boys,to the extent that they have realized that they are born to enjoy their resources more than Indimi,Danjuma,Atiku, Deribe,Bello Alakija,Obj and many other Hausa/Fulani and Yoruba vandals.

The so called armed forces should prepare to accompany Shell inside the Creek.

Let the illiterate and goro-chweing Daura animal go to the creek and confront the militants himself.

The hollow-looking skunk thinks Niger delta is sambisa forest that you can bombard without it having a negative effect on the economy.

Laughable!

Buhari is a typical mallam

A man who fails to understand the role of diplomacy and tact in an administration but believes in forces and armoury is fit to be a stone age man! Buhari is absolutely good for nothing and his surrounded by the worst of senseless sycophants!

Attend to their demand.. Old cargo

If you cant attend to all their demands, at least pick 4 that will be easy to implement. Most of the groups demand are not that rigid except for the one which calls for the disintegration of Nigeria(which i dont support) aside that the rest are negotiable.

Buhari should invite these boys for peace talk before their 7days ultimatum expires if not na to port go ghana or abidjan sure pass ooo

Buhari, You were forming Josef Stalin and 'new sheriff' before, right?... You think everything is resolved through the barrel of a gun, I know you're an illiterate, let me educate you; There's something called 'Diplomacy' in handling issues of this kind. Come down from your high horse (donkey), eat the humble pie (gworo) and quit being a dullard.

You call a set of people 5%,You referred to freedom fighters as terrorists, compared them to Bokoharam, and you expect them to be shining their teeth like sycophantic zombified citizens. Buhari, You have bitten more than you can chew.

Must you sweeting the headline in order to make frontpage...


He was apealing to the militants to embrace armnesty ni jawe.

Useless daura animal

mr pmb,obey all the conditions listed by the militants if u want to see fund to run your administration or disobey & run your administration with proceeds from groundnut pyramid in the north if there is still any.
Remember militants from akwa ibom have not started yet coz they are still weighing options given to the red chambers by their senator & if they observe the men in the red chambers are not ready to allocate oil blocks on equity,,then u will be ready to run the affairs of dis country from proceed u get from the crude in Lagos.

This man is becoming more mumuful everyday. He doesn't know the boys have gone pass amnesty issue. They want Resource Control, Restructuring of the country and implementation of the CONFAB 2014 reports.

Or better still grant them the option of referendum. And he's talking of amnesty. Nonsence.

I am with the militants on this...this persecution and daylight robbery need to end.

How can you come you all the way from the arid and unproductive and cursed north and garner all the resources in ones backyard under guise of one Nigeria??

Dictator speaking...

kossyablaze:
Useless daura animal

My brother, I know you regret voting this tyrant. It's a pity, Buhari will plunge this country further down into abysmal failure.

"When the gods are angry with the people, He sends them wicked rulers".

the new sherifat in town is now a begging sherifat

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Omenka

Buhari should go and flex his muscle in Sambisa against those fighting without justifiable course.

The demands of militants are clear and worth fighting or dying for.

People are displaced from their ancestral homes. Fishing waters and farmlands polluted.

Will the people remain jobless and die in exile while 80 percent of oil blocks in their homes are owned by the same people funding terrorism.

I read all through the story and I didn't see where he used anything close to what the headline reads. But what if he even said so?

The president urged aggrieved persons, militants and communities in the Niger Delta to drop their confrontational stance and work with those who have been charged by the Federal Government to review the Amnesty Programme initiated by the Yar’Adua Administration for the benefit of all parties.

I advise the militants to sheath their swords because I'm sure they'll not be successful to bring the nation to its knees. They seem to think they're unconquerable - black lie!

ShakaZullu:
the new sherifat in town is now a begging sherifat

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Omenka

Why you dey disturb our brother omenka??

Don't you know he's "half Niger Delta"?

Buhari cooperate

Buhari cries will soon increase the more

To much noise buhari.. Start war with.. them even if it will heat up to civil war.... Nobody wil win the war, when the militant are on the loosing.. we wil call both parties to diplomatic solution... as of now only call of duty creek warfare, iz the solution...lets the economy be...FG.. thiz jarNets want match with the jarheads. let the game begging pls buharee

Our Hit man in Aso Rock now needs help o..lmao

I wonder what the next step will be.....

Amnesty ko armory ni. I wonder wat they made out of the then amnesty programme. Deal with them the way they understand. No region or group should hold a nation at ransom.

I wonder what person buhari has become lately. Ptcheeew

If na hausa people,them go gree?
Let them do the needful until Niger deltans recieve what's due to them,until Sanusi and co get broke

see buari who provoked niger delta militants dey talk like say pipul fear am who dey fear d dullard no be d same pesin wey talk say him go crush niger delta militants like wetin him do boko haram oya make him kuku go crush dem now. mumu, by d time dis militants destroy major oyel facilities for dat area him go wish say him no win election. d dullard should be ready to face d consequencies of his actions against niger delta militants.

SeverusSnape:

Why you dey disturb our brother omenka??

Don't you know he's "half Niger Delta"?

Na so him tell me yesterday,laugh wan tear my belle...poor boy

What they fail to understand is that sambisa is not creeks and NE is not SS. Bombard this areas and see this economy come to a halt.

Sheriff my ass

Did they not tell buhari that d previous militant kidnapped 1 full speedboat of police patrol in d sea... I laff JTF dem nor go waka pass warri

this old Cargo call PMB look clueless and helpless. you will regret ever being the President of Nigeria if you dont change your way.