- After a short break, the Niger Delta Avengers are set to resume hostilities in the oil-rich region
- The militants said the Nigerian government was deaf and can only hear when knocked hard
- The group said the outcome of its next activities will make their enemy's eyes to shed blood and his heart shall quake
- The Avengers has ordered its fighters to be ready for battle as the Nigerian government was not ready for dialogue
The Niger Delta Avengers (NDA) is prepared for war against the federal government this year.
In
a statement posted on its site on Friday, January 6, titled ‘Operations
Walls of Jericho and Hurricane Joshua’, th
e group said it was set to
resume hostilities in the Niger Delta region.
The militants congratulated its fighters
and commands for a job well done in 2016 while declaring that the months
and weeks in 2017 will be filled with surprises and a reconfiguration
of the struggle for the liberation of their motherland.
The statement signed by its spokesman, Brig.Gen Mudoch Agbinibo read: "Since,
the declaration of cessation of hostilities in the region by all
fighters and affiliates, it has been evidently clear that the Nigerian
state is not ready for any form of dialogue and negotiation with our
people to addressing the issues sustaining the unending sufferings and
deprivation of the people of the Niger Delta. The world is aware that,
after listening to calls from our royal fathers, community leaders,
stakeholders and members of the comity of nations especially the
governments of the United States of America, Great Britain and the
European Union, we halted all actions.
"This prospect for hope for a genuine
dialogue and negotiations have been dashed and rejected. The world
knows that PANDEF as team of critical stakeholders was mandated to
engender a genuine dialogue and negotiations process that will be made
of apolitical committed Niger Deltans to engage with the government and
people of Nigeria, representatives of the International Oil Corporations
and neutral observers. But this government decides to go around to
politicising and blackmailing the process to forestall any genuine
dialogue and negotiations.”
The NDA said it
will resume Operations Red Economy and its next line of action will be
unannounced with overwhelming signatures to this government and
humanity.
The
militants said it is only through hard knock that the Nigerian
government can listen as it has ear problems which has taken a
“deteriorating deaf level dimensions.”
“It
is our believes that, the 2017 national budget of the federal republic
of Nigeria is not based on the crude oil production output from the
Niger Delta but it is based on the newly found oil deposits in the North
and the new pipelines construction from the Niger Republic,” the group added.
The
Avengers said the 2017/2018 crude oil term contracts awarded by the
Nigerian National Petroleum Company was conspiracy against the Niger
Delta people and it will fail.
“To our Niger Delta people, we feel
your pains from these dashed hopes of a genuine talk once again. All
fighters and commands are hereby placed on high readiness in your webs
of operations to hit and knock the enemy very hard. That is the way to
discuss with a deaf, when he cannot understand your soft massage. We are
determined to hit him very hard and deadly that even his eyes will shed
blood, his ear will be more deafened and his heart shall quake; when he
sees, hear and feel the outcome of our next activities.
On this note, we are declaring 'Operations
Walls of Jericho and Hurricane Joshua' simultaneously to reclaim our
motherland and dislodge all cleavages the Nigerian Ruling oligarchy has
foisted on the region that is sustaining the ongoing primitive
accumulation by dispossession,” the Avengers added.
The
federal government has been trying to solve the Niger Delta crisis to
no avail. All efforts to reach a truce with the militants has failed.
Three weeks ago, former militant commander, Israel Akpodoro, said Buhari should negotiate with the ex-militants and not Niger Delta elders as that is the only solution to the problem in the Niger delta region.
Naij News
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