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Ijaw Youths Rise Against Avengers, Ask Buhari To Deal With Them Thoroughly

Militants in Niger DeltaThe Ijaw Youth Council (IYC), Worldwide has condemned what they called “the unwholesome activities of a new militant group in the Niger Delta, the Niger Delta Avengers (NDA).” They asked President Muhammadu Buhari to fish out the real troublemakers and spare innocent persons and communities in the region.
The IYC spokesman, Mr. Eric Omare who spoke to news men today, Monday in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa state capital, stressed that there was no justification for NBA to embark on destruction of oil facilities and pollution of the region’s environment.
The group who commended the efforts of the Buhari government in unmasking the identities of the culprits, said that such move should only be targeted at the real militants.
According to Omare: “We do not see the justification in the Niger Delta Avengers embarking on destruction of oil facilities because Chief Government Ekpemupolo, alias Tompolo, denounced the group.
“I think Tompolo did the proper thing by coming out to inform the entire world that he was not part of the NDA when there were insinuations to the effect that he was behind them.
“As with other cases of attack on oil facilities, the Niger Delta environment and people are the ultimate victims and would suffer from these latest attacks. The IYC believes that irrespective of their grievances, there are better ways of expressing them rather than contributing to the further destruction of the already massively degraded Niger Delta environment.
“The security agencies should go after the real culprits and not innocent communities and people in the region. From our experience, the security personnel in a bid to impress their superiors and justify the huge amount of money budgeted for the purpose, always attack innocent communities and people.
“This must not be allowed to happen this time around. We would also advise the Federal Government to be prompt in directing security agencies to deal with insurgent groups all over the country including the Fulani herdsmen who have been killing innocent Nigerians just like they have just directed in respect of the Niger Delta Avengers.”
It would be recalled that the emergent militant group has claimed responsibility for the recent attacks on the SPDC platform at Forcados, the Chevron Okan platform at Abiteye in Escravos, and the pipelines transporting crude oil to the Warri and the Kaduna refineries. [myad]

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