EU and ECOWAS storms Nigeria, set To meet with Buhari over Biafra agitation

EU And ECOWAS Storms Nigeria, Set To Meet With Buhari Over Biafra Agitation And ND Avengers

The leadership of the European Union (EU) Delegation to Nigeria and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has concluded plans to meet with President Muhammadu Buhari over the rising wave of militancy in the Niger Delta and the agitations by the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), it was gathered at the weekend.

The 28-member Union, with a population of over 500 million people, and a quarter of the global wealth, is one of the most powerful organisations in the world.

Worried by the deteriorating security situation in the Niger Delta and the Southeast, leaders of the European Union spent the past weeks meeting with opinion leaders from the zones to help their understanding of how best to handle the situation.

According to The Authority, the EU leaders hosted the opinion leaders from the zones to several meetings in Abuja.

At one of the meetings, said the source, one speaker from the Niger Delta pointedly accused the EU offanning the embers of the crises in the zones, and advised the Union to stop “playing the ostrich in Nigeria.”

An official of the Union who spoke under the condition of anonymity told The Authority that it was wrong to accuse the EU, which he said between 2009 and 2013, granted over €700m aid to Nigeria, of bad faith.
“It is most unfortunate that an organisation which committed over €200m to youth development, including reintegrating ex-militants in the same Niger Delta, is accused of bad faith…