Nigeria’s Elderstatesman and
leader of the Pan-Niger Delta
Coastal states Stakeholders’
Consultative Forum, Chief Edwin
Clark has slammed the Niger
Delta Avengers for allegedly
going against a ceasefire
agreement and bombing
the Bonny Export( 48) inch
pipeline on Friday, September
24, 2016.
Clark, a former federal
commissioner for Information,
condemned the action of the
agitators in a strongly worded
statement, according to
Vanguard.
The Niger Delta Avengers
reportedly claimed responsibility
for the attack on the pipeline in
Bonny
In the statement, Clark
reportedly said there was no
justification for the renewed
bombing, especially as the 60-
day cessation of hostilities as
articulated by Pan-Niger Delta
Coastal States Stakeholders’
Consultative Forum had not
elapsed.
“It has come to the attention of
the Niger Delta royal fathers,
elders and leaders of thought
that the Niger Delta Avengers
have claimed responsibility for
the bombing of the Bonny Export
( 48) inch pipeline on Friday,
23rd September, 2016.
“We condemn in totality this il-
motivated and I’ll- advised
rampaging in the bombing by
the Niger Delta Avengers. Even
though the federal government
has not constituted its
negotiating team as articulated
by the Pan-Niger Delta Coastal
States Stakeholders’
Consultative Forum, the 60-day
cessation of hostilities has not
elapsed.
“Therefore, there was no
justification for further bombing,
such as the one that took place
last Friday.
“We repeat our appeal which
was contained in our collective
response to the summit on the
Niger Delta convened by the
office of the Vice President
published at page 8 of
leadership Newspaper of
Saturday, September 24, 2016,
and at page 9 of Saturday
Vanguard of September 24, 2016
that ‘all the armed agitators to
continue with the cessation of
hostilities and remain calm and
peaceful, even in the face of
obvious provocation. We shall
maintain this position’.”
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