AVENGERS SEEK SUPPORTS FROM UK, USA, EU, CHINA , OTHERS FOR NIGER DELTA SECESSION

Rampaging militants under the aegis of Niger Delta Avengers (NDA), have

called for supports from the international community to ensure the
actualization of the secession of the oil rich Niger Delta from the
Nigerian state.

In their latest statement, signed by ‘Brigadier General’ Mudock Agbinibo,
titled ‘’enough of this injustice’’, the group reiterated its vows to
cause more havoc on the economy until their demands are met.

They painted a picture of gloom and woes in the Niger Delta since oil and
gas were discovered, accusing the successive administration of paying lip
service to the plight of the people in the region.

The group said it wants to control the resources from the region to
restore the essence of human life in the region for generations to come
because Nigeria has failed to do that for the people.

‘’We are calling on the international community especially Britain,
France, the United State of America, Russia, China and European Union to
speak up against this ongoing terror and come to the aid of the Niger
Delta, as witnesses to this grave inhumanity and history of terror
perpetuated against the people of the Niger Delta daily’’, the statement
said.

It added: “”Since the day crude oil was discovered in commercial quantity
and quality in Oloibiri, present day Bayelsa State, what we have being
asking from successive governments in Nigeria is portable drinking water
in the midst of plenty of water mass, electricity, roads,

employment, quality education/educational facilities, resource control,
participation in the

oil business and inclusive governance that will engender substantial freedom.

‘’The reserve have been the case, from Oloibiri, Brass LNLG and export
terminals in Bayelsa; Bonny LNLG and export terminals in Riverstate;
ExxonMobil in Akwa Ibom; Escravos EGTL/ Tankfarm and export terminals;
Forcados Tankfarm and export terminals in

Delta state operated respectively by Anglo-Dutch Shell, Chevron/Texaco
Overseas, Agip ENI, ExxonMobil. The history of the communal lives is
terror of poverty, inhumanity and desolate living conditions. But when you
move into these facilities operated by the Multinational Oil Corporations,
they are living like Kings and Presidents.

‘’For over five decades, we have given Multinational Oil Corporations and
their collaborator the Nigerian State peace, cooperation and love for the
crude oil to flow unhindered from our land. The continuous tranquillity is
only manifesting in the development of mountains, rock, valleys, deserts
and lagoon but the Niger Delta territory

continually alienated from all types of development and all essence of
quality human life.

‘’Meanwhile, all successive government worships the crude oil taken from
the region.

Our communities and the people are only good at securing the pipelines,
oil and gas facilities.

What a tragedy? ‘’

NDA vowed that it would resist ‘’this history of terror’’ and correct with
every means necessary’’ as it has nothing to lose in the battles ahead,
but appealed that ‘’the world should not wait until we go the Sudan
ways.’’

Continuing, the statement said: ‘’Justice they say is only found within
the structure of a nation state, rather than provide this justice the
Nigerian government has decided to mobilise her military might to
intimidate, torture, maim, victimise and bombard a section of the nation
state and her citizenry to allow the free flow of our oil.

‘’Some persons, groups, and commentators may ask, what do the people of
Niger delta want?

We are not like some of these personalities who run champagne parties or
turn Rivers State Government House into a house patrimony of god-sons and
prebendalism.

‘’They says the progress and success of a nation state is the reflection
of her constitution that is not manufactured to favour some section and
excludes the yearning and aspirations of others; but the indwelling
spiritual and historical development of its people.

‘’Since the amalgamation of Nigeria in 1914 to date, our resources have
been used to sustain the political administrative live wire of Nigeria to
the exclusion of the Niger Delta.

‘’Finally, we are calling on the international community, to come and
support the restoration of our right to peaceful self-determination from
this tragedy of 1914 that has expired since 2014. ‘’