Godspower Gbenekama, a chief in
Gbaramatu kingdom, says that the people of the Niger Delta will resume attacks
on oil facilities if they continue to feel that the government is ignoring
them.
According to Reuters, Gbenekama
said no one can be assured that nothing will happen in the Delta. Some youth
from the region had allegedly carried out attacks on oil facilities to protest
the continued silence of the FG about issues in the Niger Delta, which resulted
in reduced oil production output.
Acting President Yemi Osinbajo
had visited communities in the region, holding peace talks and town hall
meetings to broker peace in the region. “The people of the Niger Delta can hold
this government or any government to ransom because we are the people feeding
the nation,” Gbenekama said.
“This peace is a graveyard peace.
Nobody can assure anybody that nothing will happen in the Delta.” Annkio
Briggs, a leading activist in Port Harcourt, described the peace talks as lies
and deceit while Richard Akinaka, who represented the youth in Rivers state for
a meeting with Osinbajo, said the government is treading a disastrous path.
“The government is treading on a path that is disastrous setting a precedent that they will only negotiate with the Delta when they start blowing stuff up,” he said He dismissed the meeting with one word – ‘bogus’.
However, a government spokesman
said the government has not reneged on the agreement and the government will
never do so. “The government has not reneged and will never renege on any
agreement.
Call for resuming attacks when
the government is diligent in actualising the terms of the agreements and
requests made will not help matters,” he said.
The government official said it
would take time for other agreements, such as the planned opening of a
university and community ownership of small-scale refineries, to come to
fruition.
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Resume attack, destroy the little land you have and your people will suffer
ReplyDeleteThe government refused to help them destroy more of their land and properties. If they blow pipelines, the government should continue to pump more and cause oil spillage, then help them put fire so that their perceived enemies the Northerners will be one that will get burnt. Useless and lazy bunch of people.
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