Biafra Nations League, BNL, has urged the the Niger Delta Avengers, to join the fight for the liberation of Biafra and not engage in routine asking Buhari administration for amnesty and peanuts.
According to BNL, the recent threat to resume hostilities in the Niger Delta by the militant group was to get the Federal Government’s attention for ‘peanuts’, adding that it is more benefitting to fight for freedom and resource control instead of asking for settlements.
Niger Delta Avengers, a militant group which obstructed oil production in 2016 on Saturday threatened to resume attacks on oil installations in the region
The militant group noted in a statement that it had launched ‘Operation Humble’ aiming at crippling the economy as it did in the past.
However, Head of Operations of BNL , Henry Edet, in a statement said that most Niger Deltans now see militancy as an opportunity to get favour from the Federal Government.
The BNL said that its members will not abandon Biafra to be asking for peanuts, insisting that the struggle for the State of Biafra cannot be exchanged for anything.
According to the group, it had persuaded another militant group, the Bakassi Strike Force, to shun their activities in 2016 after some Niger Delta elders made moves to meet Buhari.
“We advised the Bakassi militants as at then to publicly define their struggle different from Niger Delta militant struggle when we noticed that some elders were trying to hijack it for political reasons.”
BNL noted that some Niger Delta elders especially those in Rivers State and Bayelsa State led by Ijaw leader, Edwin Clark hijacked the Niger Delta cause to seek oil wells in Abuja, “which after they were promised by the FG, the Avengers surrendered.”
BNL also said that Bakassi Strike Force later laid down their arms after stakeholders from Cross River State pleaded for calm, adding that the issue of resettling the displaced people has not been addressed.
They advised Niger Delta youths to stop playing ethnic politics and join the fight for Biafra Republic, adding that resource control under Nigeria will not be possible.
