The Police on Friday gave a stern warning to the Niger Delta
Avengers against its planned secession from Nigeria, saying it is a treasonable
offence.
The Force Public Relations Officer, Donald Awunah, who
stated this in Abuja said the security agencies would not allow any action that
might lead to a breakdown of law and order in any part of the country.
Awunah advised the militant group against daring the might
of the Federal Government, describing their reported plan to declare a Niger
Delta republic on October 1 as provocative.
He admonished the militants to channel their grievances
through legal means, insisting that the police and other security agencies
would not condone any act of lawlessness in the region.
He said, “I believe they (militants) know that it is a
treasonable felony to declare a republic. The police and other security
agencies will not allow any treasonable action to be perpetrated in any part of
the country. They have been warned.”
The Niger Delta Avengers on Thursday threatened that it will
declare a Niger Delta Republic on October 1, should President Muhammadu Buhari
fails to restructure the country.
It also said the group was praying for the Buhari-led Federal
Government to discover oil in commercial quantity in the northern part of the
country so as to free the people of the Niger Delta from her oppressive
tendency.
The NDA had claimed responsibility for major attacks on oil
facilities in the region in recent past, vowing not to relent until the
nation’s economy was completely crippled.
The group’s spokesman, Mudoch Agbinibo, stated this on
Thursday in reaction to President Buhari’s order directing the Nigerian
National Petroleum Corporation to increase the tempo on oil exploration in the
North-East.
The group said that once oil in commercial quantity is
discovered in the North, its people would appreciate what the people of the
Niger Delta have been experiencing in the hands of the Nigerian government.
The NDA re-emphasized that the country was in dire need of
restructuring to possibly save the country from doom, accusing the present
government of dividing the country through her ‘misdirected policies.’
The NDA said, “Our prayer for Buhari and the Northern
hypocrites (the Northern governors) is that oil should be found in commercial
quantity in the North so that they can let the Niger Delta go.
“The Buhari-led government has failed Nigerians with its
misdirected policies that have divided the country. As such, nobody wants to be
part of that failed state; not even the Niger Delta.”
The statement added further, “The October 1 declaration of
independence is still sacrosanct, if the Nigerian government fails to retrace
its step by restructuring this country.
“We want to warn the general public that those using the NDA
to defraud the people, the days of reckoning are close-by.”
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