Niger Delta Avengers (NDA), last night re-emphasized its goal. It said that unlike other militants groups in the past, their aim was to liberate the Nigeria Delta region. It called the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger-Delta, MEND, an obsolete group and urged the public to disregard statements from them.
Spokesperson of the group, Brig Gen Mudoch Agbinibo, in a statement, said: “We appeal to the general public and all sane minds on the activities of Niger Delta Avengers (NDA) to disregard all purported statements and misplaced threat emanating from disbanded criminal elements like the so-called MEND.”
According to him, criminal elements in the outmoded group were “political sidekicks and desperation from Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo state, Mr. Timipre Silva and their political paymasters to hold their political party to the jugular in the affairs of the Niger Delta Region.”
The Avengers made clear: “Our struggle is focused on the liberation of the People of Niger Delta from decades of divisive rule and exclusion. We are watching keenly their regretful efforts at rebranding and regrouping criminal elements in the region for their short political gains and territories.
“The NDA is unperturbed, we have mandate that is clearly a departure of those old tactics of the defunct so-called MEND that was indulged in kidnapping, hostage taking, sea piracy, illegal oil bunkering, bank robberies and social crimes the likes of Boyloafs, Ateke Toms, were associated to in their days in the name of struggle.
“The wind of change in the Niger Delta struggle has come; we are young, smart, and focused Niger Deltans. Our mandate is to liberate the Niger Delta people; we do not run after pipeline contracts,” it said.
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