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• Why we shunned Ogoni flag-off
• Militants attack forcados pipeline, warn Agip
Ijaw leaders from the 78 Ijaw clans, traditional
institutions and socio-political bodies from Bayelsa,
Delta, Rivers, Edo, Akwa Ibom, Ondo and Delta
states met yesterday in Warri for several hours over
the renewed violence in the Niger Delta region,
especially the destruction of critical infrastructure by
the Niger Delta Avengers (NDA).
Many women and children from several Ijaw
communities in Gbaramatu Kingdom, who escaped
the onslaught by soldiers, narrated their ordeals in
the hands of the troops at the meeting.
The meeting convened by the Ijaw National
Congress (INC) exposed the dire humanitarian crisis
in several Ijaw communities of Oporoza; Kunukunu-
Amu; Okokodiagbene; Benikruku; Kurutie; Okerekolo;
Naifor; Azakrama; Kenghangbene; Igoba and several
others.Several Ijaw leaders who spoke at the ceremony
include INC Secretary, Dr. Bibobra Bello Orubebe,
who said: “As we speak, several Ijaw people cannot
be accounted for and their whereabouts, including
status as to whether they are alive or dead, cannot
be ascertained.
“Our people are starving and being molested
without recourse to minimum international human
rights standards in law enforcement.
“Ijaw children who went to write NECO are stranded
and several of our people are in the forest and the
wounded unattended.
“The situation is dire.”
The INC condemned the “use of violence by both
civilians and the federal government” and urged
parties to the crisis to respect the sanctity of
human lives, livelihood, economy, culture and
environment of Ijaw people.
The INC explained that they shunned the invitation
to the flag-off of the UNEP clean-up ceremony at
Ogoni, Rivers State on Thursday because the
government cannot be killing Ijaw people with
soldiers and still expect them to honour the
invitation.
The INC secretary told the Buhari government: “You
cannot kill the Ijaw people and rule successfully.
We are asking the military to open the waterways
for the people to move freely.
“We are appealing to the federal government to
order all the soldiers that have occupied several
Ijaw communities to leave, because we are not
pipeline vandals and members of the Niger Delta
Avengers do not live in these villages.
“The Ijaw indicated interest to work with the Buhari
government after he was sworn in; we sent
representation to the government showing our
intention to work with them, but till date, they have
not reached out to us.
“The INC welcomes the clean up of Ogoni, based
on the UNEP report. We boycotted the ceremony
because you cannot be killing Ijaw people and
expect us to attend.”
Orubebe urged the National Emergency
management Agency (NEMA) and other
humanitarian organisations to send relief materials
to the suffering displaced people.
The Chairman of Kokodiagbene community, Sheriff
Mulade, who was at the meeting, said the suffering
in Gbaramatu communities are enormous.
“Many of the women and children ran into the
swamps when the soldiers arrived. As we speak,
many of them have not been rescued, because the
soldiers have barred all boats from entering and
leaving the communities.
“It is a pathetic situation and we are urging the
soldiers to allow aides to be delivered to them,
because many of them have been in the swamps
since a week ago without food.”
Also, Hendrix Opukeme, another Ijaw leader, said
the Ijaw are peaceful people and do not want
escalation of the crisis and appealled to the Buhari
government to withdraw the troops to avert further
suffering of the displaced people.
A woman, who gave her name as Angela Temowei,
said she was forced to flee Oporoza with her two
children when the soldiers started shooting
indiscriminately.
Temowei added that she has not set eyes on her
husband and his aged mother, saying several
people were still hiding in the swamps, because
there was no way they could escape.
She said she was lucky to make it to Warri,
because she left when the first batch of soldiers
arrived.
Another displaced person, Lepe Kenekuma, said: “I
hid in the roof of a house for two days before I
decided to swim to back of Oporoza, where I
paddled a canoe to a location, where I was rescued
by a boat operator.”
He said the military had shut down the waterways
and barred boats from reaching displaced people.
Kenekuma urged Delta State Governor Ifeanyi Okowa
to assist his distressed citizens.
Meanwhile, the Niger Delta Avengers (NDA)
yesterday bombed the 48-inch Forcados export
pipeline at Forcados export terminal.


www.guardian.ng/news/ijaw-to-fg-withdraw-troops-from-niger-delta/

Lemme read before I comment

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The struggle didn't start from Gbaramatu and killing innocent Ijaw people won't solve the problem

missing kwa?

Hahahahaha IDP kwa? So international bodies to bring money for you to share?

Fear have start to erupt in them!

I await Ibo wailing zombies to come and support violent ND Avenging touts on this thread too.

Blizzy9ja:
Lemme read before I comment

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The struggle didn't start from Gbaramatu and killing innocent Ijaw people won't solve the problem

And IPod/ND avenging touts killing our military men ain't the way to go.

PMB will repeat the same blunder he commited in the 1970's at the chad basin.The man lacks tact and capacity.Very incompetent leader.

The army has withdrawn from Tompolo's village. I called my coursemate & he confirmed they were asked to withdraw. So that the villagers can go about their lawful businesses!

Where two elephants fight grass will be the one to suffer. I pity innocents ijaw people involved. Sorry, I feel your pain, wicked man and impostors will advance from bad to worse

talktonase:
PMB will repeat the same blunder he commited in the 1970's at the chad basin.The man lacks tact and capacity.Very incompetent leader.

We like him like that. People like you support and encourage terrorists that call themselves Avengers, and you cry river when consequences of their criminal acts start to bite them and their community.

Abeg make una park well joor.

When it comes to fighting armed men, the Nigeria Army are busy running away.

When it comes to innocent civilians without weapon, they automatically become the hulk.

I've never seen an Army as useless coward and weak as Nigeria army. Only got the balls when is defenseless people.

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talktonase:
PMB will repeat the same blunder he commited in the 1970's at the chad basin.The man lacks tact and capacity.Very incompetent leader.

[/s]tell your people to stop killing soldiers. IPOB tout

Yorubanews:
And IPod/ND avenging touts killing our military men ain't the way to go.

I dont give a f.uck about IPOB, my concern is the 89 armless youths that where killed by security agents earlier this week in the East and the innocent Ijaw women and children that are being subjected to untold hardship all in the name of looking for the Avengers


The Avengers havent killed any millitary man

See the truth is ijaws are the worst group in Nigeria, trust me after them It's fulani

I pity any body in Niger Delta Republic ( a country were ijaws will be majority)

Non of ijaw neighbours are at peace with them
I mean non

Have u had pipeline bombing in Rivers, akwa ibom or even other part of Delta

Old Rivers State was an example of what an ijaws dominated country will look like

Its all in the struggle..

People wey never see war dey beg for war..

Let it start first..

Na so the North first dey shield boko haram until poo hits dem face.. Dem form JTF sharp sharp..

Wait, e never reach..

Blizzy9ja:
I dont give a f.uck about IPOB, my concern is the 89 armless youths that where killed by security agents earlier this week in the East and the innocent Ijaw women and children that are being subjected to untold hardship all in the name of looking for the Avengers


The Avengers havent killed any millitary man

Have u been living under a rock The avengers were the first to attack nigerian soldiers. These people dont deserve any restraint. The shld all be eliminated asap!

No place is safe in Nigeria.
Father, we need Your intervention in our nation Nigeria, forgive us our sins O Lord, we all have sinned and have falling short of Your glory have mercy on us O Lord.

Story imagine the so called lazy ijaw youth who denied knowledge of the NDA know asking the military ti leave the country's territory. Everybody know the beginning of a war but nobody can predict how it will end. Food for thought! !!

Blizzy9ja:
I dont give a f.uck about IPOB, my concern is the 89 armless youths that where killed by security agents earlier this week in the East and the innocent Ijaw women and children that are being subjected to untold hardship all in the name of looking for the Avengers


The Avengers havent killed any millitary man

Avengers have killed multiple military men and they've been proud to take responsibilities for their violent actions. So who are you, an online nobody, to say otherwise?

This military men have innocent wives and children too.

The greatest supporters of ND Militants are Ibos/iPods.

DonBobes:
The army has withdrawn from Tompolo's village. I called my coursemate & he confirmed they were asked to withdraw. So that the villagers can go about their lawful businesses!

They went to catch wind. Ikuku ona ama n'onya?

Yorubanews:
I await Ibo wailing zombies to come and support violent ND Avenging touts on this thread too.

are igbos the cause of ur misfortune in life?

mrvitalis:
See the truth is ijaws are the worst group in Nigeria, trust me after them It's fulani

I pity any body in Niger Delta Republic ( a country were ijaws will be majority)

Non of ijaw neighbours are at peace with them
I mean non

Have u had pipeline bombing in Rivers, akwa ibom or even other part of Delta

Old Rivers State was an example of what an ijaws dominated country will look like

So no Ijaw in Rivers? go and reset your brain because the present Rivers still have Ijaw with highest local government areas.

mrvitalis:
See the truth is ijaws are the worst group in Nigeria, trust me after them It's fulani

I pity any body in Niger Delta Republic ( a country were ijaws will be majority)

Non of ijaw neighbours are at peace with them
I mean non

Have u had pipeline bombing in Rivers, akwa ibom or even other part of Delta

Old Rivers State was an example of what an ijaws dominated country will look like

Are there no Ijaws in Akwa Ibom? The current Spokesman for INC is from Eastern Obolo in Akwa Ibom

Yorubanews:
I await Ibo wailing zombies to come and support violent ND Avenging touts on this thread too.

Where is your new sheriffat?