The Niger Delta Avengers yesterday sent a warning signal to President Muhammadu Buhari over his outburst on Niger Delta issues each time he embarks on overseas trip. The militants, who have been silent since the ceasefire commenced, wondered why the President would not let the sleeping dogs lie but travels abroad to fan embers of discord.
They said they have observed with keen interest that whenever the President travelled outside the country, he seizes the opportunity to break the peace-accord reached with them.
In a statement signed by its spokesperson, Brig. Gen Mudoch Agbinibo, yesterday, tagged, ‘An Open Letter to Mr. President,’ the group lamented that the President went to developed nation like the United States of America, Germany, France, Britain and wash his dirty linen. “We call on President Muhammadu Buhari to put away the garb of a stooge to the imperialists whenever he speaks outside Nigeria.
We have listened carefully and halted hostilities in the Niger Delta. We expect a genuine and positive attitude to restructuring and self-determination for every component unit of Nigeria.
“Dear President, what makes those countries (Japan, Germany, France, USA, Britain etc.) great is the ability of their governments to accommodate internal protestations and conflicts for the greater good of their nations over the years.
Please stop presenting your government as pawn to the web of military industrialists complex, whenever you leave the shores of Nigeria.” While they pointed out to the President that Nigeria is not his personal estate, they said no amount troops deployed to the region under the disguise of ‘military exercise’ would prevent the people of the region from controlling their God’s given resources.
“Nigeria is not a oneman personal property. We must have these talks every time if this union must continue to work as one. The people of the Niger Delta have been living here from time immemorial.
So, we have the secret of the terrain and survival of amphibious operations. “No amount of troop surge and simulation exercises will make you win the oil war.
You can only win battles. You cannot apply the might of the state to restore the people’s confidence in your leadership when you cannot differentiate between genuine demands and being mismanaged by disorganized characters and tribal lords around you in your government that are playing the court jesters role as well as counting the days that is left in your four years term.
“You can deceive the whole world but We cannot be deceived by the so glamorized ongoing military operations in the creeks of Ijaw communities in the Delta coded ” Operation Crocodile Smiles”.
According to the group, the body language of the President in Kenya has proven to the international community that the ongoing military occupation in the creeks was targeted at killing the innocent indigenes of the area.
“The world should know that with your pronouncement in Kenya and your attitude to the military build up in the Niger Delta, it is crystal clear that the military has nothing less than a pre-determined genocide in Niger Delta and burn more already scared national resources to the pockets of those that have failed to locate the missing Chiboks School Girls.”
