Militants Blame Ex-Governor For Insecurity In Niger Delta

CIRCUMSTANCES surrounding the unabating spate of violence in the Niger Delta area, Nigeria's main oil and gas region, have started to creep into the open, with a faction of the armed youths pointing accusing finger at the direction of the immediate past governor of Rivers State, Dr Peter Odili.
This unfolding claim might assist the security forces to get to the bottom of the worsening unease in the oil region. A faction of the Movement for the Emmancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) that labels itself ''MEND Authentic'' said in a wired statement to Scoop on Friday, that Odili allegedly oiled the activities of the sorawling militia cells in the oil and gas region.
Spokesman for the MEND slinter group, Akpos Nabena, said Odili's eight years as the governor of Rivers State was riddled with ''violence, destruction,and killings'', adding that when they were about to heave a sigh of relief that Odili was on his way out with all his disturbances and vices, ''we have come to realize that Odili is not in a hurry to leave us alone''.
According to them, ''on the eve of Odili's departure on the 28th of May 2007, there was a curious security report circulating in the state that one cult and gang leader Prince Igodo of Tombia and others were about to disrupt the inauguration of Sir., Celestine Omehia as the new Governor of Rivers, the next day being 29th May 2007. In the light of this,Odilli's security chief, called a meeting of Henry Okah, Gbomo Jomo Master's MEND at Government House. At the meeting, large sums of money were disbursed to Henry Okah to finish Prince Igodo and his men at Tombia. Consequently in the early hours of May 29th 2007, an amanda of boats attacked Tombia led by Soboma George and Farah. At the end of the battle, there were casualties on both sides, and Prince Igodo was fatally injured and died later among his men''.
The group allegedly later proceeded to attack Obuama where they burnt down the house Mr. Tonye Harry, the new Speaker of Rivers State House of Assembly, the house of Chief O.C Harry, Paramount Chief of Obuama and the Ultra Modern Obuama town hall.
Thereafter, they proceeded to attack Serma, Otroama, Buguma, Ido, Bukuma, old Bakana and Bakana, leaving behind trails of destruction and truamatised town folks.
''The question we want to ask Henry Okah Gbomo Jomo is, do these attacks represent the struggle for the emancipation of our people? How does the attack benefit our people and the struggle? As the saying goes, you can deceive some of the people all the time, you can deceive all of the people some of the time but you can't deceive all the people all of the time. Henry Okah, Gbomo Jomo Master, represents a dark side of our struggle. He is a darkness trying to envelope the bright light lit by Isaac Adaka Boro, Ken Saro Wiwa and others. We must not allow him to extinguish this bright and brilliant light as he leads our youths into bank robbery, hostage taking, and attack on politicians so as to blackmail and intimidate them to pay him protection money. This does not represent our struggle''.
For the new governor,Omehia,who is still battling for legitimacy with the immediate past Speaker of the state legislature, Rotimi Amaechi, the militants said, ''we are very sorry that he is starting on a very wrong footing and if he does not retrace his footsteps to a position that is befitting the status of a governor, his problems would be far more than that encountered by his godfather, Odili''.
''In as much as we are not in support of the criminal activities of Prince Igodo, including the kidnapping of Omehia's mother, we do not believe that executing him in an extra judicial manner is the answer. We will advice Celestine Omehia to chart a new course for himself,far away from the destructive, deceitful and divide and rule path of Odili''.
Continuing, they said the people of rRivers and the entire Niger Delta want peace, adding, there will be no peace if one group of criminals are paid to chase another group of criminals because the criminal elements are insatiable.
''Omehia should have learnt a lesson from the Odili, Mujahid Dokubo-Asari and Ateke Tom episode when Odili set up Ateke against Dokubo-Asari and failed and later Ateke became a sworn and harsh enemy of Odili until he left office preferring instead to back Dokubo-Asari against the government'', they said.

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The news above is from oyibosonline.com.

I will like to quickly add that any resolution of the Niger Delta issue without beaming searchlight on the present and Former Niger Delta Govs ia a waste of time. They should be asked about the 13% before diverting our attention to resource control etc. Kidnapping is their method of evading EFCC probe on their finances. When they sponsor Kidnapping they pay  20-50m and  and say it is 200-250m the rest goes into their pockets-security votes? no receipt or trace.

Our president should not that it is not justifiable to keep Asari and Alams in custody when Odili is moving about freely. if they say Alams is corrupt Odili is more corrupt,if Asari is a criminal,Odili is the author and finisher of criminality.

Mr President please release those two sons of the Niger Delta if you do not have the guts to make Odili join them where they are.

Send non ENglish speaking mobile police to this region and that will be the end of this unrest.

Why don't you send southern MOPOLs to fight help bring peace in the region? You know that majority of the MOPOLs are notherners abi we dey fear to die? Then you will complain that the northerners are cheating the south. When they are the ones that can give their lives for anything they believe. We dey for south dey make trouble and noise----- they make big man-------killing ourselves for nothing! A beg!

Once Biafra pledges its support to the Nigerdelta, no weapon of any magnitude can dissolve our brothers in the south-south. But , then again, if they don't want our support we will relax and watch the fabrication of their doom.

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