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Militants say Clark, others are buccaneers feeding fat from Niger Delta misery
The Niger Delta Greenland Justice Mandate, NDGJM, has disowned the dialogue team put together by Ijaw leader, Chief Edwin Clark, calling them buccaneers that has held the Niger Delta region in under development.
The group also warned the Federal Government not to dialogue with the team.
The NDGJM, in a statement by its spokesperson Aldo Agbalaja, on Monday, declared that the Ijaw National Leader cannot negotiate for militants in the region because they are the same ‘gang of breast-pocket politicians’ who held down the development of the region in the six to seven years of Goodluck Jonathan’s presidency.
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Their statement read in part: “We are also aware that there is a group (NDDCG), led by the Amanyanabo of Twon Brass, Alfred Diete-Spiff, which has the involvement of some international agencies, we would rather the federal government builds on this group to reach out to the genuine representatives of the peoples of the region, across the six states, to discuss the way forward because we believe what is worth doing at all is worth doing well.
“Build on this group and reach out to our people, not on an Edwin Clark group, which had connived with Jonathan in the past to subject this region, including the majority of our Ijaw brothers, to one of the most untold humiliations by leaving the region they claimed to be representing worse than it was under previous administrations.
“Enough of these buccaneers in the name of leaders of the region, our people from both the upland and the creeks deserve a better deal, not the Avengers kind of deal. We are serving a notice that the Niger Delta Greenland Justice Mandate is still carrying on with this campaign against Nigeria’s oil and gas interest until the federal government does right.”
By Timothy Enietan-Matthews
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