Don’t dialogue with Niger Delta Avengers – Group tells Buhari
Some youths under the aegis of Niger Delta Youth Parliament (NDYP), called on the federal government not to think of opening any discussion with the Niger Delta Avengers (NDA) alone.
The youths who are from the Niger Delta region made this known on Tuesday, June 21
NDYP stated that if the federal government goes to the dialogue table with the NDA, other militant groups will take up arms and face the government, asking for their own fresh demands.
While speaking, the national coordinator of NDYP, Imoh Okoko, explained in an interview with some journalists on Tuesday, June 21, in Uyo, the capital of Akwa Ibom state.
The NDYP coordinator advised the federal government under President Muhammadu Buhari, to study the remote causes of the militancy and proffer lasting solution, as well as seeking advice from the major stakeholders and interest groups across the Niger Delta states, which is a method of ending the issue of militancy in the Niger Delta region once and for all.
Niger Delta Avengers ready for dialogue with the Nigerian government.
Okoko, who used the amnesty programme of late president, Umar Musa Yar’Adua as an example, citing the fraud which was committed by some of the coordinators of the amnesty programme said: “Oil companies operating in the region have abused the process of amnesty, which I believe is what led to the regrouping of the current militant group in the Niger Delta.
“Imagine the oil companies employing Lebanese as labour because they felt the federal government has given the Niger Delta militants amnesty.”
Apart from NDYP which is dissuading the federal government against any form of dialogue with the Niger Delta Avengers, former militants under the aegis of the National Coalition of Niger Delta Ex-Agitators (NCNDE-A), also warned the federal government against going into dialogue with the Niger Delta Avengers.
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