A new militant group, Niger Delta Greenland Justice Mandate, NDGJM, on Monday, cautioned the Federal Government against negotiating with the Chief Edwin Clark-led team.
Reports recently had it that rampaging militant group, Niger Delta Avengers, had agreed to negotiate with the Federal Government, through a team led by the Ijaw National Leader and an elder statesman, Edwin Clark.
But spokesman of NDGJM, Aldo Agbalaja, distanced the group from the Avengers negotiation team, saying “our people from both the upland and the creeks deserve a better deal, not the Avengers kind of deal.”
NDGJM further described the Clark’s negotiating team as the same, “gang of breast-pocket politicians,” who denied the region of development during the administration of former President, Goodluck Jonathan.
In the statement, NDGJM said, “We are aware that there is a group(NDDCG), led by the Amanyanabo of Twon Brass, Alfred Diete-Spiff, which has the involvement of some international agencies, we would rather the federal government builds on this group to reach out to the genuine representatives of the peoples of the region, across the six states, to discuss the way forward because we believe what is worth doing at all is worth doing well.
“Build on this group and reach out to our people, not on an Edwin Clark group, which had connived with Jonathan in the past to subject this region, including the majority of our Ijaw brothers, to one of the most untold humiliations by leaving the region they claimed to be representing worse than it was under previous administrations.
“Enough of these buccaneers in the name of leaders of the region, our people from both the upland and the creeks deserve a better deal, not the Avengers kind of deal. We are serving a notice that the Niger Delta Greenland Justice Mandate is still carrying on with this campaign against Nigeria’s oil and gas interest until the federal government does right.”
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