NIGER Delta Avengers, NDA,
Tues night, said the Movement for the
Emancipation of the Niger-Delta, MEND, is
obsolete urged the public to discountenance
statements from the group.
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.”
It said the criminal elements in the outmoded
group were “ political sidekicks and
desperations from Governor Adams Oshiomhole
of Edo state, Mr. Timipre Silva and their political
paymasters to hold their political party to the
jugular of the affairs of the Niger Delta Region.”
Avengers claimed: “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
re-brandingand 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
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.
