IJAW LEADERS PLEADED TO US NOT TO DECLARE NIGER DELTA REPUBLIC – MILITANTS

 

One member  Adaka Boro Avengers, a member of  Niger Delta militant groups, said it's group has cancelled its planned declaration of a Niger Delta Republic yesterday (August 1) after appeals from leaders of Ijaw, including ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, E. K. Clark, and others, PUNCH reports.

According to him, the group reiterated its mission to cripple the nation’s economy until the federal government is ready to dialogue with the group and restructure the Nation.

They also use this medium to called on the Federal Government to "stop wasting their time with those greedy fellows that call themselves Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND)".

Their direct statement read :

We adhere to the voice of our people, because our struggle is for the Niger Delta people and not for selfish reason. But this is not the end. More has yet to come. Our mission to cripple the economy of the Nigerian nation will not stop until the Nigerian government is ready to sit on a roundtable to dialogue and to restructure Nigeria.

We received calls from prominent leaders like Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, E. K. Clark, Ankio Briggs, and especially King Alfred Diete Spiff calling on the freedom fighters to abort their mission to declare Niger Delta Republic.

Unless that, we will not stop until Nigeria becomes a zero economy. We are also saying this for the benefit of President Muhammadu Buhari and Nigerian government to stop wasting their time with those greedy fellows that call themselves MEND because nothing good will come out of them rather than sabotage.

Everything they are saying, not even one will be accomplished. We will never agree with anything they say and henceforth MEND should watch their backs because we have tolerated them for a very long time.

Enough is enough, since they want to set confusion in the Niger Delta we will start from them.