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Yar’Adua’s Amnesty: A Ruse! Armed Struggle in the Niger Delta will continue

June 25, 2009

On behalf of the Joint Revolutionary Council comprising the enlarged units of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, The Reformed Niger Delta People’s Volunteer Force & The Martyrs Brigade, I wish to announce a complete dissociation of the Joint Revolutionary Council from the Umar Yar’Adua amnesty largesse even though we recognize that it would provide great succor for bandit elements within renegade criminal ranks.



 This so-called amnesty is the latest in a series of ‘Greek gifts’ awarded to the people of the Niger Delta to enable smooth access to the oil in our communities. Others include the Niger Delta Development Commission (which was designed to fail from the onset) and the Ministry of Niger Delta headquartered in Abuja.

 The Yar’Adua junta has failed the people of the Ijaw and Niger Delta region even as we recognize that the people of the region today constitute their own biggest problems. Fifth columnist elements, incompetent political leaders and outright stupidity have corrupted the minds of the people.

 The Yar’Adua junta has abused the confidence of the people of the Ijaw and Niger Delta territory. When he assumed presidency over the Nigerian state as defacto winner of the 2007 elections, we pledged to do everything within our power to drive the enthronement of peace. Today, we retract that pledge.

 Too many innocent people were murdered in cold blood. Too many families lost everything they had. We call on the Gods of Ijaw land to visit judgement and death to all those who unleashed such wickedness in our land. Those that murdered our families shall have their own families murdered in cold blood.

 The bombardment of the Ijaw communities in the Gbaramatu kingdom was the height of a calculated attempt by criminal JTF gangs driven by a go-ahead order given by a very ill president to question the existence of a long suffering Ijaw community within recourse to due process and the appropriate rules of engagement.

 The Gbaramatu slaughter will never be forgotten in a hurry. The cries of the dead will continue to inspire the eruption of more flow stations and strategic flowlines across the lengths and breadth of the Niger Delta. As the oil has become our curse, then the pipelines will continue to burst.

 Armed struggle in the Niger Delta will continue.
It is unfortunate that most of the governors of the Niger Delta were foisted upon the people and therefore cannot speak for the people. It is far worse with members of the House of assembly many of lack the education they need to play relevant roles.

Time will tell.

 

The struggle is on course.

 

 

 

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