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Avengers Reject Call From Ex-niger Delta Cohorts To Join In Government Talks by maupe: 12:42pm On Jun 13, 2016
YENAGOA, Nigeria, June 13 (Reuters)
The Niger
Delta Avengers, a group that has claimed
responsibility for a recent spate of attacks on oil
and gas facilities in Nigeria's oil hub, on Monday
rejected calls from former militants to join talks
with the government.
On Sunday, the Movement for the Emancipation
of the Niger Delta (MEND) -- one of the largest
militant groups until it signed up for a
government amnesty in 2009 -- urged the
Avengers to negotiate and halt attacks that have
cut Nigeria's crude output to a 20-year low.
The ex-militants said they had chosen a team of
negotiators to participate in the government
initiative to start talks over their demands for a
greater share in oil wealth and a reduction in
pollution from oil spills in the impoverished Niger
Delta.
Nigeria's government has moved army
reinforcements into the swampy Delta region in
response but Western allies have said that
widespread poverty and oil spills there must be
tackled to defuse the militant problem.
Nigeria was long Africa's biggest oil producer until
the wave of attacks by the Avengers pushed it
into second place, behind Angola, in recent
weeks.
MEND has said some of its former commanders
and fighters make up the Avengers, which has
been denied by the group. Security officials have
also linked a MEND commander to the Avengers,
although he denies this.
"MEND is a phased out body," an Avengers
representative told Reuters in a text message,
saying the group had been defunct since
participating in the amnesty scheme.
"It's just some political jargon ... to confuse the
general public," he said of MEND's intervention,
before questioning the ex-militant group's right to
be involved in a committee aimed at quelling the
current insurgency.
The Avengers said they would not cooperate with
government when the idea of negotiations was
first mooted last week.
www.dailystar.com.lb//News/World/2016/Jun-13/356732-avenger-militants-spurn-call-from-ex-niger-delta-cohorts-to-join-in-government-talks.ashx

http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSL8N1951PC?rpc=401&
Re: Avengers Reject Call From Ex-niger Delta Cohorts To Join In Government Talks by Ebubeslym(m): 12:43pm On Jun 13, 2016
A pendulum swings both ways.
.
What you sow, is What you'll reap.
.
For every action, there is an Opposite and equal reaction.
.
Give, and it'll come back to you in good measure.
.

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Re: Avengers Reject Call From Ex-niger Delta Cohorts To Join In Government Talks by Nobody: 12:44pm On Jun 13, 2016
But why
Re: Avengers Reject Call From Ex-niger Delta Cohorts To Join In Government Talks by millhouse: 12:48pm On Jun 13, 2016
Na mend dey bomb? Why are they so quick to run to the front table to discuss with the govt.? People wet dey bomb say they ain't ready yet to dialogue with d govt. MEND sef!!!!

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Re: Avengers Reject Call From Ex-niger Delta Cohorts To Join In Government Talks by papayeye: 12:49pm On Jun 13, 2016
Deze Avengers wicked gon. Dey no just wan gree 4 Deze our Goverment. Wetin sef, sey na only una dey Niger Delta. Goverment bring 10 billion dollars, wan give una, FOC, una no gree, dey say dem go give una pipeline workchop, una no show dem face. Now wen dem don carry una big big men take beg una, una still dey form. Ok O, make una carry go. Na una show, so make una run am as D tin sweet una reach.
Re: Avengers Reject Call From Ex-niger Delta Cohorts To Join In Government Talks by Nobody: 12:53pm On Jun 13, 2016
Mend don mad
Who need ex
Avengers we hear you still.








long live



















long live

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Re: Avengers Reject Call From Ex-niger Delta Cohorts To Join In Government Talks by Achuwa1(m): 12:53pm On Jun 13, 2016
fake source & fake news

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Re: Avengers Reject Call From Ex-niger Delta Cohorts To Join In Government Talks by pabjo: 12:57pm On Jun 13, 2016
we are really in big thing, since this guys are fed up with every lied of government from the beginning. but hope their consider an end to this bombing for the sake of the poor masses
Re: Avengers Reject Call From Ex-niger Delta Cohorts To Join In Government Talks by maupe: 1:04pm On Jun 13, 2016
Achuwa1:
fake source & fake news
The error has been corrected. I have never been involved with slander or dissemination of false information
Re: Avengers Reject Call From Ex-niger Delta Cohorts To Join In Government Talks by hucienda: 1:08pm On Jun 13, 2016
That's why the news on the purported crack within the militant ranks was kinda funny.

The MEND, JNLF and so on can not say they are negotiating with the FG when it is obvious the ones the state should try rein in are the avengers.
Re: Avengers Reject Call From Ex-niger Delta Cohorts To Join In Government Talks by alcmene: 1:11pm On Jun 13, 2016
God punish MEND the kidnappers............

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