Niger Delta Avengers Says ‘Enough Is Enough’, Call On World Powers to Come To N’Delta Aid Before Nigeria Goes Sudan Way

Resurgent militia group, the Niger Delta Avengers have declared “enough is enough” to what it called history of terror, oppression, injustice, poverty in the oil-rich Niger Delta region by successive government in Nigeria.

The group declared on Thursday that before Nigeria will go the Sudan way, the international community should come to the aid of the region to achieve its quest for peaceful self-determination and control of oil resources derivable from the region.

Specifically, NDA called on Britain, France, and United State of America, Russia, China and European Union to speak up against the “terror” meted out on the Niger Delta region by the successive government in Nigeria.

In a statement by its spokesman, ‘Brig-Gen’ Mudoch Aginibo, NDA vowed to resist with any means necessary the years-long “injustice and underdevelopment in the Niger Delta, declaring that they have nothing to lose in the “battles ahead”.

It recalled that since the day crude oil was discovered in commercial quantity and quality in Oloibiri in the 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 Avengers which have wreck some much havoc to oil installations in the country in recent times, held that what the region has gotten all the years has been; “terror of poverty, inhumanity and desolate living conditions”.

According to them, successive government in Nigeria had used resources from the region since the days of Oloibiri to develop mountains, rock, valleys, deserts and lagoon outside the region but have continue to “alienate the Niger Delta region from all types of development and all essence of quality human life”.

The group mentioned oil facilities in the region of which the Nigeria state have allegedly ripped off the region to includes; “Oloibiri, Brass LNLG and Export Terminals in Bayelsa; Bonny LNLG and Export Terminals in River state; ExxonMobil in Akwa Ibom; Escravos EGTL/ Tank Farm and Export Terminals; Forcados Tank Farm and Export Terminals in Delta state operated respectively by Anglo-Dutch Shell, Chevron/Texaco Overseas, Agip ENI, ExxonMobil”.

They said that those who operate these facilities in the region live like “Kings and Presidents” whereas the region which produce Nigeria main economy stay is stripped of any tangible infrastructure.

The group therefore vowed to correct what it called “history of terror” by successive governments in Nigeria which it declared “worships the crude oil taken from the region”.

They maintained that instead of doing the needful the government had 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.

“For over five decades, we have given the multinational oil corporations and their collaborators, the Nigerian State, peace, cooperation and love for the crude oil to flow unhindered from our land.

“The continuous tranquility 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 governments 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?

“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.

‘This history of terror, we the Niger Delta Avengers will resist and correct with every means necessary.

“We have nothing to lose in the battles ahead; 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.

“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.

“We want our resources back to restore the essence of human life in our region for generations to come because Nigeria has failed to do that. The world should not wait until we go the Sudan ways. Enough is enough”.