A new group, Niger Delta Advancement Frontier, has alleged that the Niger Delta Avengers are attacking oil and gas facilities in the region to blackmail President Muhammadu Buhari into not probing their corrupt deals under President Goodluck Jonathan.

The group charged the president not to succumb to the whims of the militant group who aims to draw him into allowing them go with their loots and pledged to work with other stakeholders and government to stop the rampaging Niger Delta Avengers from blowing up pipelines in the region and halt what it called a looming danger of expanding attacks on oil facilities.
They also wants Buhari not to make the mistake of allowing the sponsors of the Avengers to have their way as it would embolden the traumatised oil companies to enter into contracts of protection with them as well as mutate other groups to do so, thereby plunging the region into another session of anomy.

A statement by the National President of the group, Nengi Jasper, Secretary Erepadei Ngozi and Provost, Dennis Boloudiowei, said the group rose from an emergency meeting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, with a resolve to come out and fight the avengers because of the implication of their continued activities.

According to them, unless President Muhammadu Buhari moved fast, oil companies may panic and start employing any group that claimed affiliation with the Avengers to protect their production activities since they would rather cut back loses by going back to production.

Rather they advised the president to interface with communities and groups minded to stopping the carnage with the military so that they can rout the Avengers who they said were a phony and selfish body whose aim was to protect the business interest of their masters.

“The Avengers who we do not believe are real are just forcing the hand of Buhari to leave scrutinising of their contracts under President Jonathan and feel the best way was to arm-twist him into letting them go with their loot. President Muhammadu Buhari should not make the mistake of falling for the antics of the Avengers because that is the bobby trap they have laid for him. If he does, other groups will mushroom and before you know it, several groups aiming for contracts will be formed and the region will descend to the former state before the launching of the amnesty programme.

“What he should do is to liaise with communities and groups who are against the Avengers, interface with them through the military and with the common front, rout the resurgent group. They are not representing the interest of the region but trying to get attention of government and oil companies. They want to prove to both that they are the only ones that can protect their operations so that they would have their business interests preserved.

“The mistake the president is making is that he is taking too much time in taking action. He also must have noticed that this is not a problem military action could solve. Since the people working with the president from the region are unable to know what to do to solve the problem, new set of people who do and can engage the people to stop the spread should be brought on board to handle matters before it blooms into something uncontrollable. The Avengers are already reaching out to people in Bayelsa and Rivers States and trying to collaborate with them.

“Niger Delta Avengers and other groups are not working in the interest of the region; their attacks are pre-meditated and for business and security contracts especially in NIMASA. Those behind Avengers are former contractors of NIMASA who are using the information and reach at their disposal because of what they did for government to hold the entire country to ransom and bringing down oil production.

“They are showcasing their nuisance value so that they would be called for negotiation. They don’t love the Niger Delta and they are not working in the interest of the region. If they claim to love their people, how come they collected N11 billion for the location of the Maritime University in Okerenenkoko and only declared N300 million to their community? It is this type of free funds that has put a lot of arms with which they are embarrassing the nation together,” the group alleged.

They expressed anger over the impression that Ijaws were the only people in the Niger Delta, pointing out that from Ondo to Akwa Ibom and Cross River were part of the Niger Delta, adding that complaining of one Captain Hosa handling pipeline contracts as their grouse was misplaced.

According to them, “Captain Hosa is a Niger Delta, and even under President Goodluck Jonathan, he was handling the same jobs and we wonder why the issue of his jobs did not come up under President Jonathan”

The group further alleged that the Avengers complaining of poor funding of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), the Amnesty programme and the Niger Delta Ministry which though may be true, were afterthought which they were holding on to for higher stakes.

On the alleged support by the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), the group faulted the support to resort to arms, querying why the group did not resort to arms when their leader, Nnamdi Kanu was incarcerated.

They carpeted the Amnesty Coordinator, General Boroh and the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) which they said were supposed to rally youths to check the excesses of the Avengers.

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.. lies

Start fighting the Avengers ... Hahahahah

Hungry group looking for a piece of the action. Money no dey.

Straight from d stable of Apc.. .. .. Lies

Whoever that came up with this opinion @op. This opinion is fit for nothing otherr than waste bin.

Story

Very true.

This story was cooked and garnished from Aisha's kitchen, believe it at your peril.

Next pls!!!

God help us!!!

Gbam!

~~yawns~~

The Old Divide and rule Style at play here.

Chibuzoc:

“What he should do is to liaise with communities and groups who are against the Avengers, interface with them through the military and with the common front, rout the resurgent group. They are not representing the interest of the region but trying to get attention of government and oil companies. They want to prove to both that they are the only ones that can protect their operations so that they would have their business interests preserved.

This sounds like a good strategy the FG should adopt. There are several Niger Deltans (even on this forum) that see through the smoke of NDA and are against their selfish and destructive activities.

These people should be the arrow head of the fight and they must enlighten the people of the selfish deceit of the scAvengers and the pollution that arises from their bombing. The Ogonis who are still celebrating the commencement of their cleanup will be useful here.

They should be encouraged to form a Civilian JTF to smoke out the criminals in their midst to avoid both further destruction of their ecosystem and militarization of their villages.

The effort to deal with the scAvengers must also be psychological, as well as military.

Niger Delta Advancement Frontier is an APC front, it doesn't represent the wishes and aspirations of Niger Delta peoples.
In resource control we stand, anyone who says anything different is an enemy.

kernel501:
Start fighting the Avengers ... Hahahahah

that is a good idea, let d good militant battle d criminal avengers, they can be co-opted into d army to be like d civilian jtf that battle boko haram.

TippyTop:
Niger Delta Advancement Frontier is an APC ffron, it doesn't represent the wishes and aspirations of Niger Delta peoples.
In resource control we stand, anyone who says anything different is an enemy.

and anyone that destroyed his own fathers house is a bastard, d avengers are bastard, they are not niger deltans, they are ipod

Mylove55:
and anyone that destroyed his own fathers house is a bastard, d avengers are bastard, they are not niger deltans, they are ipod

Choi.
Education is good oh. . .

TippyTop:
Niger Delta Advancement Frontier is an APC ffron, it doesn't represent the wishes and aspirations of Niger Delta peoples.
In resource control we stand, anyone who says anything different is an enemy.

Since Niger delta scavengers are working for PDP,What is wrong in Niger Delta Advancement Frontier in working for APC.

Are you afraid of this move,stop panicking.