INDICATIONS
have emerged that the peace meeting between the Federal Government and the Pan
Niger Delta Elders, Leaders and Stakeholders Forum held in Abuja last week
might not lead to the peaceful resolution of the crisis in the region.
The Niger
Delta Greenland Justice Mandate (NDGJM) yesterday threatened more devastating
attacks on some upland major oil installations in the region.
The threat
came just as the Niger Delta Avengers (NDA) yesterday described the demands put
forward by the South South dialogue team to the peace parley with the Federal
Government as a step in the right
direction towards a sustainable peace across
the region.
Meanwhile, the
traditional spokesman of the Gbaramatu kingdom, Chief Godspower Gbenekama has
advised members of the various stakeholders who represented various ethnic
groups to the peace negotiation parley with the Federal Government to as a
matter of urgency call for a town hall meeting in their constituency to brief
their people on the outcome of the meeting so as to bridge the communication
gap between the people and government on how to chart a new course towards the
development of the region.
The NDGJM in a
statement by its spokesman, Gen. Aldo Agbalaja, threatened more devastating
attacks on oil installations based on its distrust in the caliber of people
that represented the region at the peace talk, even as it noted that it was not
unaware of the Federal Government’s intention to declare a full scale war in
the region in the eventual failure of the parley.
The statement reads in part: “The humiliation that came with the meeting of the PANDEF with the Nigerian president, Muhammadu Buhari, did not come to the NDGJM as a surprise. We expected it because we know even the government knows the character and intent of most of those he led to the meeting.
“The only
painful part is the fact that the humiliation is stamped on the collective
image of our people. 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 NDGJM is saying we are ready
for his worst”.
The group
added: “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.”sunnewsonline
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