Buhari govt confused, unserious over Niger Delta militancy -Avengers’ arm

A Niger Delta militant group has threatened to cripple oil production in Niger Delta. It said it will do so since President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government is insincere and unserious in attending to the issues in the oil region.

The group, Ultimate Warriors of Niger Delta, an affiliate body of the rampaging Niger Delta Avengers accused government of double speak on dialoguing with the people of the region, an act it said is inciting.

“Today the President will say something, tomorrow his vice and some of their dishonest and selfish lieutenants will contradict him and that only shows how confused and unserious the government is about the problems and how to deal with them,” the group said.

Sibiri Taiowoh, the group’s spokesman in a statement said “We have said it before that we have nothing to lose on the bombing of oil pipelines because our mission is to ground the oil economy if our demands are not met.

“We have said we are doing what we are doing to prod the government to renegotiate the control of our oil resources and other related matters. What we are doing now is the only way to this kind of agitation.”

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The group threatens that since government has continued to run away from negotiation with the people of the region, it said soon there will not be room for negotiation and that government will not like the next line of action militancy in the region will take.

“ We have watched with chagrin the recent utterance by the President and his Vice and all we are seeing is them
tacitly playing double standard and lips services to the demand of the groups as it concerns the Niger Delta question and that is why all of our Units and affiliates have not fully heeded to our ceasefire, the group said.

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