Niger Delta Avengers, the
militant group giving mixed signals regarding dialogue with the federal government,
has vowed to declare the Niger Delta region an independent entity on October 1,
2016.On Wednesday, Ballantyne Agiri, “spokesman” for the dialogue group of the Avengers,
had indicated the readiness of the group to engage the federal government in
dialogue in order to resolve the lingering crisis.
However, Mudoch Agbinibo,
spokesman of the Avengers, denied the report while saying that “Ballantyne
Agiri” was not authorised to speak for the militant group.
In a statement released on the
website of the Avengers on Thursday, Agbinibo maintained that the Niger Delta
no longer wants to be part of Nigeria. “Our prayer for Buhari and the Northern
hypocrite
(Northern Governors) is that oil
should be found in commercial quantity in the North, so they can let the Niger
Delta go. “The Buhari-led government has
fail Nigerians with their misdirected policies that has divide the country,as
such nobody wants to be part of that failed state not even the Niger Delta.
“The October 1st, declaration of
independence is still sacrosanct. If the Nigeria government fails to retrace
it’s step by restructuring this country, we want to warn the general public
that the day of reckoning is close for those using NDA to defraud people.”
A similar statement released by
the Avengers in May 2016 had said that “by October 2016 we will display our
Currency, Flag, Passport, our ruling Council and our Territory to the world. “To
the United Nations, we are not asking for much but to free the people of the
Niger Delta from environmental pollution, slavery, and oppression.
We want a country that will turn
the creeks of the Niger delta to a tourism heaven, a country that will
achieve its full potentials,
acountry that will make health care system accessible by everyone. “With Niger
delta still under the country Nigeria we can’t make it possible. So we are
calling on the Ban Ki-Moon Secretary General United Nations and all Heads of
the government of the five Permanent Security Council members to come to the aid
of Niger delta people. We are calling on world leaders to come to the Niger
delta to see the atrocities committed by the Nigeria government.
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