Ijaw 
National Leader, Chief Edwin Clark,
has appealed to militants in the Niger Delta to
sheathe their swords and stop the bombing of
oil installations in the region.
Clark, who is a former Minister of Information,
said the bombing of critical gas installations
and its attendant impact on the national
economy was a great shock to him.
He said that it would be better for the militants
to present their grievances to the Federal
Government instead of embarking on the
destruction of oil installations.
The former minister spoke at a press
conference in Abuja on Tuesday.
He told the aggrieved militants that Niger
Delta had yet to recover from the season of
violence which the region experienced
between 2005 and 2009.
He said, “The new wave of attacks and
destruction of critical oil and gas installations
in the Niger Delta and the attendant impact on
the national economy are of great shock to me.
“I had believed that pipeline destruction and oil
installation vandalism were eliminated under
the proclamation of the amnesty on October 4,
2009.
“Furthermore, the reports are a surprise to me
because not so long ago, I had cause to make a
passionate appeal for a total end to the
destruction of the oil and gas facilities
throughout the country because they are the
major economic artery of the nation.”
