Niger Delta: Gen Boroh's peace move paying off
The ex-militants leaders while declaring that they would
stamp out criminality from Bayelsa State, commended the Presidential Adviser
on Niger Delta, Gen. Paul Boroh, Minister of State for Petroleum Resources,
Dr. Ibe Kachikwu and the Bayelsa state Government for their commitment to
bringing sustainable peace in the state and the Niger Delta region at large.
In press statement issued by the ex-militant leaders led by
General Africa Ukpariasa, General Pastor Reuben and the current local
government caretaker committee chairman, Joshua Maciver after a meeting with
the Minister of State, Petroleum, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, the Presidential Adviser on
Niger Delta, Gen. Paul Boroh, the Bayelsa state Governor, Henry Seriake Dickson
and other stakeholders in the state, the
ex-militant leaders agreed to work with
the Federal and Bayelsa state governments as well as the security agencies to
stamp-out criminality in the state and stop crimes such as pipeline vandalism,
sea-piracy, kidnapping, armed robbery and other sundry crimes in the state.
According to the ex-militant leaders activities of the Niger
Delta Avengers and other groups in the Niger Delta region were in no way aimed
at advancing the interest of the people.
They reminded members
of the NDA that “they signed a pact with the federal government in 2009 to drop
their armed struggle and embrace peace”
The ex-militant
leaders therefore warned that “what they are doing is in contravention of that
pact and advised the NDA and other militant groups in the region to steer clear
from Bayelsa state as they would henceforth make it their duty to police the
creeks and the length and breadth of the state”
The ex-militant leaders called on the federal government to
bring meaningful development to the Niger Delta region to fore-stall such
unwarranted blackmail and economic sabotage by groups under different names and
guise.
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