After weeks of several attacks on the nation's Oil Pipeline, the Dreaded Militant Group is now ready to stop attacking pipelines if FG will accept their conditions.
According to the statement released by the group's spokesman, Brigadier-General Mudoch Agbinibo,Niger Delta must be given the right to control its own resources and possibly be carved out from Nigeria because the region can no longer put up with the damaging effect of crude oil on its communities due to the successive negligence of past administrations towards the region.
Mr. Agbinibo in his statement lamented that the local residents are living lives of “terror of poverty, inhumanity, and
desolate living conditions” compared to individuals who live at the oil
facilities “operated by the multinational oil corporations, who
lives like kings and presidents.
“This history of terror, we the Niger Delta Avengers will resist and
correct with every means necessary. We have nothing to lose in the
battles ahead; justice they say is only found within the structure of a
nation state, rather than provide this justice the Nigerian government
has decided to mobilise her military might to intimidate, torture, maim,
victimise and bombard a section of the nation state and her citizenry
to allow the free flow of our oil. Some persons, groups, and
commentators may ask, what do the people of Niger Delta want?
We are not like some of these personalities who run champagne parties or turn Rivers State Government House into a house patrimony of god-sons and prebendalism. They say the progress and success of a nation state is the reflection of her constitution that is not manufactured to favour some section and excludes the yearning and aspirations of others; but the indwelling spiritual and historical development of its people.
“Since the amalgamation of Nigeria in 1914 to date, our resources have been used to sustain the political, administrative live wire of Nigeria to the exclusion of the Niger Delta. Finally, we are calling on the international community, to come and support the restoration of our right to peaceful self- determination from this tragedy of 1914 that has expired since 2014.
“We want our resources back to restore the essence of human life in our region for generations to come because Nigeria has failed to do that. The world should not wait until we go the Sudan ways. Enough is enough.”
We are not like some of these personalities who run champagne parties or turn Rivers State Government House into a house patrimony of god-sons and prebendalism. They say the progress and success of a nation state is the reflection of her constitution that is not manufactured to favour some section and excludes the yearning and aspirations of others; but the indwelling spiritual and historical development of its people.
“Since the amalgamation of Nigeria in 1914 to date, our resources have been used to sustain the political, administrative live wire of Nigeria to the exclusion of the Niger Delta. Finally, we are calling on the international community, to come and support the restoration of our right to peaceful self- determination from this tragedy of 1914 that has expired since 2014.
“We want our resources back to restore the essence of human life in our region for generations to come because Nigeria has failed to do that. The world should not wait until we go the Sudan ways. Enough is enough.”
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