Unedited from the Niger Delta Avengers Official site - Agitations are
the rights of component unit in a federalism, we owe no authority, tribe or
political group any
apology. It is the responsibility of the central government
to cooperatively manage them rather than overheating the system by thinking of
fierce responses (decisive military action).
It is
disgusting for president Muhammadu Buhari and his tribesmen to equate the
revenue priorities of the Niger Delta region with regional comparisons of
development in Nigeria. For crying out
loud, since 1914 our resources have being the essence of this union called
Nigeria before crude oil was discovered. The amalgamation of southern and
northern Nigeria was for administrative convenience because the north was not
viable economically. The idea of bundling through bills like North East/West
Development Commission is fraud, hypocrisy and bigotry by President Muhammadu
Buhari.
President
Muhammadu Buhari should think like a leader with the advantage of his age to
see the genuine and legitimate agitation with the right attitude to pacify our
people. We have been raped for too long, general Muhammadu Buhari should face
the reality of the Niger Delta question. He can stop listening to ideas and
advice of the agitation as political system support structure that his tribal warlords
and conflict merchants have hypnotized him to believe as the face of the Niger
Delta struggle.
Niger Delta is
part of Nigeria federation that he governs, since he is the president, he will
always need the cooperation of our people to share or allocate our resources to
other component units. The daylight robbery and allocation of proceeds of our
natural resources must stop. When he was the chairman of Petroleum Trust
Fund (PTF), as general Sani Abacha
henchman he exhibited this bigotry by focusing attention to his region, which
he never pretend about by emphasizing 97% Versus 5% development and appointment
structure that he has exhibited again in his fifth coming as national
affairs. He never pretend to be ethnic
and religious bigot; the only things he pretends about are his roles in the
underdevelopment of the Niger Delta and Nigeria in the over three decades he
has being in government - 1976, 1978, 1983/4, 1993/98 and now.
He also
pretend over the deliberate politicization of the Niger Delta struggle by those
tribesmen and conflict merchants he has abdicated the responsibilities of
governing Nigeria to since, May 2015. He has forgotten that on his assumption
of office, peace has been sustained in the region not through political party
and structure support approach but the involvement of genuine stakeholders and
the people of the region.
That if Mr.
President will come down from that his ethnic iron-horse, To engage in
discussion with our people on October or any date he likes, the issues are not
new. We want to control our resources and pay appropriate taxation to the
central government that is fiscal federalism in practice and in principles. The
government, representatives of the Multinational Oil Corporations, neutral
international observers and elders as well as stakeholders should guide
themselves with the following documents: the Sir Henry Willinks Commission
Report of 1958, The Ogoni Bill of Rights, The Kaiama Declaration document of
the Ijaw Youth Council, The General Alexander Ogomudia Committee Report, The
Niger Delta Technical Committee Report which contains the Pre- amnesty issues
and agreement with the government of Nigeria in 2009. Then, the framework can
be drawn for achieving the short, medium and long term objectives toward the restoration
of our land and reparation for the people that have been raped and colonized
since 1914.
No amount of
military action and surge will stop us from halting the flow of the oil from
our land to sustain Nigeria. This is our land that we are the masters of its
battlefields. We have warned earlier that we want the " Peace with honour,
no more peace of our time". Any meeting with this government should be
seen as driving a combustible vehicle laden with fire to safety; it must be
driven with carefulness.
Brig Gen
Mudoch Agbinibo
Spokesperson.
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