Prepare For War, Niger Delta Militants Tells FG
November 6, 2016 News No comments
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The Niger Delta Greenland Justice Mandate (NDGJM), yesterday, declared its preparedness to engage the Federal Government in war devoid of ‘no victor, no vanquished’. The group was angry over what they tagged the humiliationthat came with the meeting of the PANDEF with President Muhammadu Buhari, which according to the group, “did not come to the Niger Delta Greenland Justice Mandate as a surprise.”
The group said: “We expected it because we know even the government knows the character and intent of the man (referring to the Minister of Information during the First Republic, Chief Edwin Kiagbodo Clark) most of those he led (including the Delta State Governor, Ifeanyi Okowa, his Bayelsa State counterpart, Serieke Dickson), to the meeting.” The militants expressed displeasure that the dialogue stamped humiliation on the collective image of the Niger Deltans.
The group maintained that the representatives of the people of the region at the meeting were not carefully selected by the various people and ethnic nationalities constituting the region but were cabals responsible for the current deplorable state of the region and its people. It would be recalled that the elder statesman and foremost Ijaw leader (Clark) led a delegation from the Niger Delta region to the presidency early in the week and tendered a 16-point demand, including ownership substantial part of oil blocs.
But reacting to the dialogue yesterday, the spokesperson of the militia group, Aldo Agbalaja, dared President Buhari and his administration to fully carry out military occupation in the region and watch out for the reprisal attack that would accompany it. “However, we want to dare President Buhari and his administration to attempt or fully carry out his military action against our people and see the response that will follow.
“We want to say here, without mincing words, that we are aware of his intentions. We heard loud and clear his hostile message. We understand his message even beyond his uttered words and the Niger Delta Greenland Justice Mandate is saying we are ready for his worst. “We know he has severally threatened war on our people, which threats we had been calm enough not to respond to, but at this point, we believe it is time for us to come out to say to him that enough is enough.
If it is war, bring it on, we are no cowards, just be sure you can sustain the consequences because this is not going to be another vanquished ‘BIAFRAN UPRISING’, Niger Deltans are nobody’s slave. We shall fight until there’s nothing left to defend,” the statement read. The group said the bombings carried out by the Niger Delta Avengers (NDA) would be nothing, compared to what the Central Command of the Greenland Mandate would do to the county’s oil sector in few days to come.
“As a matter of fact, what the Avengers did to the oil industry will be nothing to compare with the grand-plan already set by our Central Command: we shall bring the Nigerian daily output quota to below 500,000. Just be ready for the approaching Tsunami. “
The oil multinational companies, we know you are recalcitrant and will always come to test wills. We hope you will continue in this tradition so there will always be reasons to let the world know that ‘you don’t contest the corners of a house with the owner of the house’.
The statement continued: “The destruction of the Trans-Forcados Pipeline (TFP) is just a warning to a deaf/rogue entity. We warned against the restarting of the facility, but the daring companies won’t listen.
That shadow operation that brought the TFP down was only meant to let these companies know that we aren’t kidding with them; when we say stay down, you stay down, its in your own best interest.”
The group threatened that peace would only reign in the region unless honest leaders were selected by the people, for the people and by the people of the region. “Like we said prior to now, if there will be a dialogue and an agreement between the Niger Delta and the Nigerian Federal Government, it has to be transparent and sincere, and the representatives of our people will be selected by the various people, not handpicked by the cabal of leeches responsible for the current deplorable state of our land and people.”
Similarly, another ex-militant agitator, General Emman Shobor, has said that the 16-point demand made by the Pan-Niger Delta group when they met with President Muhammadu Buhari this week does not represent the interests of any of the agitating groups. General Shobor, who was the leader of the defunct Niger Delta Actualization Force, now a promoter of a Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), Niger Delta Initiative for Actualisation of Peace and Development, admitted that there are one or two representatives in the team from the Urhobo and Isoko, but insisted that the demands they made did not represent what the actual agitators wanted.
He commended the Federal Government for the creation of the waterways programme to be headed by the son of General T Y Danjuma (rtd), Mr. Yuki Ehime Omani.
