*SAY NO GOING BACK ON AUGUST 1
*MEND WORKING TO FREE HENRY OKAH,
AVENGERS’ AFFILIATE TELLS FG
The Adaka Boro Avengers (ABA) and other militant
groups have asked indigenes of South-East and
South-South all over Nigeria to immediately come
back home.
groups have asked indigenes of South-East and
South-South all over Nigeria to immediately come
back home.
Specifically, they called on former President
Goodluck Jonathan; elder statesman, Chief Edwin
Clark; King Alfred Diete Spiff; Ankio Briggs; Joseph
Eva; Patrick Fufein, Pastor Good, past and present
military personnel from the Niger Delta region,
present senators and members of the Houses of
Representatives to come to Kaiama for the official
declaration of the Niger Delta Republic on August 1.
In a statement issued on Sunday, July 24, General
Edmos Ayayeibo, the group’s spokesman, reiterated
the earlier order that Northerners and South
Westerners should vacate the South-South before
August 1.
He warned the Federal Government to “move out all
military personnel and all government agencies out
of the Niger Delta,” noting that “failure will lead to
destruction of military barracks and personnel.”
General Ayayeibo also warned that non-indigenes of
South-South and SouthEast who remained in Niger
Delta after the declaration of independence would
have themselves to blame.
“The Nigerian community is aware of what
happened some weeks back after our seven days
ultimatum given to the multinational oil companies
in the Niger Delta. Every one witnessed how many
lives that were lost and how many oil installations
that were destroyed,”
General Ayayeibo said. The statement reads in part,
“We are also using this medium to call on the Niger
Delta famous sons and daughters. Pa E. K. Clark,
King Alfred Diete Spiff, His Excellency Dr. Goodluck
Ebele Jonathan, Ankio Briggs, Joseph Eva, Patrick
Fufein, Pastor Good, the children of late Pa Isaac
Adaka Boro, past and present military personnel
from the Niger Delta region. “Past and present
governors from the Niger Delta, past and present
senators and Houses of Representatives members.
“Finally all sons and daughters of Niger Delta
Republic to come to Kaiama for the official
declaration of the Niger Delta Republic.”
Independent recalls that on Wednesday, July 20,
leaders of the Hausa and Yoruba communities in
Warri dismissed ABA’s August 1 ultimatum to leave
the South South.
One Mallam Rabiu Abdulraman, leader of Hausa
youths in the town who spoke in Hausa Quarters,
Igbudu area of Warri, said while the Ijaw militants
had the right to agitate “for whatever they claim to
be their right, they should also remember that other
law-abiding Nigerian citizens who believe in the
unity of the country have their rights to be protected
and live in any part of the country of their choice.”
Similarly, Mr. Abiodun Oguntomisin, a Yoruba youth,
said that no group could chase away Yoruba people
from any part of Nigeria.
He said that the Yoruba also have militant group in
Nigeria known to all and warned the Niger Delta
militants to rethink their decision.
Oguntommisin accused the militants of pursuing a
selfish agenda and added that “nobody will benefit
from this unbridled brigandage of the Niger Delta
militants.
Their leaders and our so-called human rights groups
should call them to order now instead of keeping
quiet in the face of the wreckage they are causing
the nation because of imagined or perceived
marginalisation by successive governments.”
Independent further recalls that ADA had on
Tuesday, July 5, indicated that it would team up
with the Niger Delta Avengers (NDA) to attack more
oil installations in the Niger Delta.
The activities of these militant groups have
negatively affected Nigeria’s crude oil production
and sales. As at May 2016, Nigeria’s oil production
had dropped to 1.65m barrels a day, the lowest
output in 22 years, as a result of resurgence of
militant activities in the Niger Delta region.
Meanwhile, Ultimate Warriors of Niger Delta
(UWND), an affiliate of the Niger Delta Avengers
(NDA), alleged on Sunday that the Movement for
the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), which
recently unveiled the names of some respected
leaders from the region to negotiate on behalf of
the militants, is only working to free Henry and
Charles Okah.
MEND had earlier confirmed that it was in talks with
the Federal Government to end attacks on oil
pipelines in the Niger Delta region and urged the
Federal Government to ignore NDA, whose
members it described as criminals.
http://independentnig.com/2016/07/25/return-
home-militants-advise-south-east-south-south-
indigenes/
