NIGER Delta Avengers, NDA, Saturday,
said its war was not against soldiers and oil
workers, but on oil installations and warned
other emerging groups to desist, henceforth,
from kidnapping and attacking soldiers.
The militant group also disowned the new
groups, claiming to have anti-aircraft missiles,
warning them to desist from targeting or any
aircraft or it would go after them.
In a statement by its spokesperson, Brigadier
General Mudoch Agbinibo, said: “The high
command is calling on all groups in Rivers,
Ondo, Delta, Bayelsa, Cross River, and Akwa
Ibom to not indulge in any act of kidnapping
and attacking of soldiers. The war is on oil
installations; “Operation on Flow of Oil.”
It read: “The liberation of the Niger Delta
people has taken a new swing with the daily
emergence of new groups all over the region.
The Avengers are calling on all groups in the
region to be strong and resolute as it is
obvious that God is on our side.”
“The groups are much now both real and
unreal but if you really fighting for the liberation
of the Niger delta people, the high command
of the Avengers is calling on you not to attack
any soldier and those claiming to have anti
aircraft missiles should deist from targeting
any aircraft.
Let us be careful not offend God in the
process of trying to liberate our people from
the shackles of the Nigerian government
because we need God more than anything right
now. We also need the international community
as well. Hence, we must desist from any life
threatening actions that will derail our genuine
struggle for our people,” the Avengers said.
“All groups are hereby discouraged from
indulging in harassing oil workers and soldiers.
We urge you all to help any oil workers or
soldiers you see in distress.
“The military warplanes hovering round our
towns and villages have not strike a soul or
destroy any property, so those groups with anti
aircraft missiles should dry their gunpowder,” it
said.
The group added, “When it is time to engage
the military in combat, the whole world will
know that they started the war, not the
Avengers. The Niger Delta Avengers’ high
command will pass the message round that it
is time to engage on gun battle when the time
comes.”
“So far, we have not engaged the Nigeria
military in combat; despite the heavy presence
of military on the pipelines. we still find way to
carry out our actions without attacking soldiers.
The avengers will deal with any group that
refuses and attack military,” it added.
Meanwhile, the National Coalition of the Niger
Delta Ex-Agitators, NCNDE, called on the
Federal Government to flush out the Niger
Delta Avengers, NDA, which they described as
criminal elements allegedly sponsored by the
Peoples Democratic Party, PDP to stoke
troubles from the region.
President of NCNDE, Israel Akpodoro who
stated this while chatting with newsmen,
alleged they that the PDP was in want of
goading the Federal Government into military
confrontation that may provoke public outcry
especially "the foreign communities with the
ultimate aim of discrediting the All
Progressives Congress, APC led administration
at home and abroad".
According to Akpodoro, the second aim of the
Avengers was to cripple the Nigerian economy
to give reasons for the PDP to gloat and mock
the administration, adding that "such act is
unpatriotic".
Urging the Federal Government to go all out for
those he described as criminal elements
masquerading as freedom fighters and their
sponsors, he said "no amount of subterfuge
can make anyone believe that the bad losers in
the PDP are not behind the economic
saboteurs.
"The avengers are biting more than they can
chew; Nigerians know that the Avengers are
drawn from the ex-militants who were on the
payroll of the Amnesty office of the Federal
Government but are now serving few failed self
acclaimed leaders from the region".
Holding that the Nigerian Army has all it takes
to bring the last member of the avengers to
justice, Akpodoro said that "no person or group
of persons can threaten to kill President
Buhari. The avengers in their empty and
barefooted threats to kill the President if he
visited Ogoni land was an expression of
madness taken into lunatic fringe.
He berated the leaders of the region for
keeping silent rather than cautioning the
"sponsors of the criminal group. Our leaders
should be bold in their stance against the
perpetrators of hostilities occasioned by
vandalism of oil and gas facilities in the
region".
Speaking further, he frowned at media reports
credited Governor Fayose of Ekiti State on the
issue, noting that his actions were unbecoming
of a supposed state executive.
He called on the youth in the region to
embrace peace in order to open a new vista of
accelerated development and growth in the
region, saying, "no ethnic group has the right
hold the nation to ransom".
"When Jonathan was the President, he didn't
contemplate the clean up of Ogoni land neither
did he see the East-West road as a need for
the people of the region. While he held sway,
we the people of the region allowed ethnic
sentiments to blur our senses of reasoning.
They looted our commonwealth blind only for
the beneficiaries of the six years misrule to
turn around to sponsor hostilities against the
Federal Government. Buhari should consider
making another Odi in any of the hotbeds of
criminal activities in the region," Akpodoro
added.
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