{"id":10316,"date":"2016-07-24T10:59:09","date_gmt":"2016-07-24T10:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=10316"},"modified":"2016-07-24T11:02:02","modified_gmt":"2016-07-24T11:02:02","slug":"niger-delta-militants-want-buhari-to-name-govt-dialogue-team-reject-mend-as-their-envoy-group-to-any-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=10316","title":{"rendered":"Niger Delta Militants want Buhari to name govt dialogue team; reject MEND as their envoy group to any talk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><code><script src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\" async=\"\"><\/script><br \/>\n <!-- www.deltanewsroom.com --><br \/>\n <ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-2163942495525027\" data-ad-slot=\"1411897411\" data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\/\/ <![CDATA[\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/code><\/p>\n<p>Niger Delta militants have rejected\u00a0the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) as their envoy group to hold talks with the federal government concerning crisis in the\u00a0ares. The groups also demanded\u00a0\u00a0President Muhammadu Buhari to name\u00a0a high-powered government Dialogue Team within three weeks<\/p>\n<p>Among the\u00a0opposers of the MEND\u2019s\u00a0leadership are\u00a0Ultimate Warriors and\u00a0the Niger Delta Revolutionary Crusaders (NDRC) who insist the movement can\u2019t speak on behalf of\u00a0all the militant\u00a0groups in the area as it had previously supported the Nigerian government against the Niger Delta<\/p>\n<p>In a statement sent to Vanguard, the groups also gave President Muhammadu Buhari three weeks ultimatum to list\u00a0a high-powered government Dialogue Team. They once again stressed that the team should comprise members of the international community with a sole mandate to dialogue\u00a0with militants and other stakeholders to stop pipeline bombings.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile,\u00a0the Niger Delta Avengers (NDA) have accused some government security agencies of\u00a0collaborating with\u00a0the defunct MEND and other\u00a0saboteurs to bomb oil pipelines in order to arrest\u00a0innocent people\u00a0to impress their commander-in-chief and sabotage the genuine battle.<\/p>\n<p><code><script src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\" async=\"\"><\/script><br \/>\n <!-- www.deltanewsroom.com --><br \/>\n <ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-2163942495525027\" data-ad-slot=\"1411897411\" data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\/\/ <![CDATA[\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/code><\/p>\n<p>Recall that earlier the group explained their mission by their desire\u00a0\u201cto cripple the economy of the country and not to kill any human being on earth.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c The MEND Aaron Team 2\u00a0 is led\u00a0by Mr. Henry Odein Ajumogobia, SAN (Rivers \u2013 Team Leader) with HRH King Alfred Papapreye Diette-Spiff, Amayanabo of Twon-Brass (Bayelsa state) as Deputy Team Leader and Representative of the Niger Delta Dialogue and Contact Group \u2013 NDDCG). \u2013 Senator Florence Ita-Giwa (Cross River) representing all militant groups and communities from the Bakassi axis, \u2013 Mr. Ledum Mitee, Esq. represents Rivers state, \u2013 Senator Adolphus Wabara represents the oil-bearing communities in Abia and Imo states, \u2013 High Chief Government Ekpemupolo, alias Tompolo, (Delta state), Mr Ibanga Isine (Akwa Ibom state), \u2013 Mr. Alfred Isename (Edo state), \u2013 Mr Timipa Jenkins Okponipere, Esq. (Bayelsa ) is the secretary of Aaron Team II.<br \/>\nVANGUARD<a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/mend-militant.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10125\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10125\" src=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/mend-militant-300x166.jpg\" alt=\"mend-militant\" width=\"300\" height=\"166\" srcset=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/mend-militant-300x166.jpg 300w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/mend-militant.jpg 615w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\" async=\"\"><\/script><br \/>\n <!-- www.deltanewsroom.com --><br \/>\n <ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-2163942495525027\" data-ad-slot=\"1411897411\" data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\/\/ <![CDATA[\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Niger Delta militants have rejected\u00a0the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) as their envoy group to hold talks with the federal government concerning crisis in the\u00a0ares. The groups also demanded\u00a0\u00a0President Muhammadu Buhari to name\u00a0a high-powered government Dialogue Team within three weeks Among the\u00a0opposers of the MEND\u2019s\u00a0leadership are\u00a0Ultimate Warriors and\u00a0the Niger Delta Revolutionary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":10125,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[2468,1245,2467,1462,2469],"class_list":["post-10316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national","tag-henry-odein-ajumogobia","tag-mend","tag-ndrc","tag-niger-delta-avengers","tag-ultimate-warriors"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/mend-militant.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4oswh-2Go","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10316"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10318,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10316\/revisions\/10318"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}