Niger Delta Avengers List Conditions For Dialogue With FG
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Niger Delta Avengers List Conditions For Dialogue With FG
The Niger Delta Avengers on Monday said it was ready for a dialogue with the Federal Government.
The militants, however, gave conditions for the peace talk.
In
a statement published on its website, the group said the Federal
Government must suspend the purchase of crude oil from the Niger Delta
region.
The militants also asked President Muhammadu Buhari not to turn the proposed peace talk and dialogue to a political jamboree.
The group said it only needed a genuine attitudeand conducive atmosphere that would “make us commit to any proposed dialogue and lasting peace talk.”
In
the statement signed by the NDA’s spokesperson, Mudoch Agbinibo, the
militants also asked the Federal Government to involve member states of
the multinational oil corporations to commit independent mediators to
the proposed dialogue.
It
said the peace talk would set up a framework for achieving the short,
medium and long-term demands of the Niger Delta to bring about a lasting
peace.
The
statement partly read, “If need be, we may review our earlier stance of
not taking lives. We are going to redirect and reactivate all our
activities if the government, oil companies and their services firms
don’t heed to these modest warnings of not carrying out any repair works
and suspend the buying of crude oil from our region as we await the
right atmosphere that would engender genuine dialogue.
“The
NDA high command is restating our commitment to attack the interest of
oil corporations and international refineries operators that bring in
vessels to the Niger Delta territory to buy our oil that every
successive government has refused to use and reapply the proceeds
towards any development in the region since 1958.
“If
they refuse to heed our advice, it would result to the sinking of two
of their mother vessels as examples to others. They should not undertake
any repair of the pipeline, oil and gas facilities that is damaged or
attacked by our forces during this period of “Operation Red Economy” until and after the dialogue.”
Meanwhile,
a prominent Ijaw leader, Chief Edwin Clark, has warned a former
Governor of Nasarawa State, Alhaji Abdullahi Adamu, to desist from
ridiculing and discrediting him and other Niger Delta leaders.
The
nonagenarian specifically told Adamu to stop spreading falsehood and
accusing him of not showing concern following the emergence of the Niger
Delta Avengers.
Clark said as a father, he had played his roles towards the maintenance of peace in the zone.
Clark,
in a statement by his Legal Adviser, Mr. Dotun Sowemimo, on Monday in
Abuja, faulted the claim, saying he had on many occasions cautioned the
militants.
He,
however, called on the NDA members and other groups to stop all
activities that were inimical to the pipeline and oil facilities in the
Niger Delta and embrace dialogue.
“Chief
Clark is, once again, using this medium to call on the Niger Delta
Avengers and other groups to stop all activities inimical to the
pipeline and oil facilities in the Niger Delta and embrace the three
weeks ceasefire offered by this administration to embrace dialogue.”
Sowemimo stated.
According
to him, Adamu lied by accusing Clark of showing lackadaisical attitude
in stopping the militants from bombing oil installations.
Sowemimo
recalled that Clark on May 17, 2016, strongly called and appealed on
the Niger Delta Avengers and any other groups of like mind, to desist,
forthwith from their activities and embrace dialogue as the best means
of having their grievances assuaged.
According
to him, Clark reiterated his support for the anti-corruption war of
President Muhammadu Buhari, when he insisted that it should be fought to
the end.