OCT 2016, NIGER DELTA WILL BE A COUNTRY – DISPLAYS FLAG, CURRENCY, PASSPORTS

By October 2016, we will display our currency, national flag, passport, our ruling council and our territory to the world. “To the United Nations, we are not asking for much, but to free the people of the Niger Delta from environmental pollution, slavery, and oppression.

We want a country that will turn the creeks of the Niger Delta to a tourism haven, a country that will achieve its full potentials, a country that will make health care system accessible by everyone.”

Strike teams “The Commander of Strike Team 9 of the Niger Delta Avengers is from Eastern Nigeria. So, nobody should limit this struggle to the Ijaws of the Niger Delta. The leader of Strike Team 6 that blew up Chevron Valve Platform is Itsekiri. The Commander of our elite Strike Team One is from Akwa Ibom.”

Purported threat to Kachikwu It explained: “No agent or representative of the Avengers called the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources and Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Group Managing Director, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, to threaten his life.”

Wike condemns pipelines blow up Meanwhile, Rivers State governor, Nyesom Wike, has condemned the blowing up of pipelines in the Niger Delta by militants, saying that it was not in the interest of the region, as it will negatively affect the revenue accruing to the states for development.

He assured that the states of the Niger Delta will work with the Federal Government and security agencies to ensure the stoppage of pipelines vandalism by militants. In an interview with German Television, ARD, in Port Harcourt, yesterday, Governor Wike said: “Blowing up pipelines will further decrease our revenue, which will affect payment of salaries and development projects.”

Meanwhile, Centre for Peace and Environmental Justice, CEPEJ, in Delta State, yesterday, asked Niger Delta Avengers to have a rethink and halt the bombing of oil and gas installations to avert further destruction of the deteriorated environment.

National coordinator of the group, Sheriff Mulade, in a statement, said: “Although it is important to agitate for the development of the region, it is wrong to destroy the environment in the process because it takes a long time to remediate a destroyed environment. “Militants cannot continue to use Niger Delta communities and kingdoms as a war front to the detriment of the environment, image and people of the region.

“Gbaramatu communities are not at war with the Federal Government and security agencies. The Centre, therefore, appeals to relevant authorities to employ intelligence in fishing out the culprits and bring them to book.”

.” Similarly, Commandant General, Riverine Security (Coast Guard of the Federation), Commander Bibi Oduku, has said that the militants bombing oil installations in Delta State under the cover of Niger Delta Avengers, hail from Gbaramatu Kingdom in Warri South-West Local Government Area of the state.

source: VANGUARD