A former President of the Ijaw
Youth Council Worldwide, Udengs Eradiri, has identified those fueling the
militant group, Niger Delta Militants in the oil rich region.
Eradiri revealed that some
external forces were behind the activities of the militant group.
He made the revelation when he
addressed reporters in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital on Tuesday, claiming
that even the Federal Government was aware of the whole scheme.
He said that agitations in the
region arose from long years of underdevelopment, neglect, lack of equity,
insincerity, among other challenges.
He said to solve the agitations
in the region, the government had to show more commitment and seriousness in
addressing the causes of agitations.
Eradiri stated, “The government
is not serious. All they want to do is blackmail some persons politically and
dent people’s images. I am from this area and I know how it works. All I want
is for everything here to be better.
“I believe and I know that all this
Avengers’ stuff and threats are external. They are fuelled by external forces;
people who just want to disrupt things are behind it. Their thinking is that
money will come out it through negotiation. Even the government knows about it.
It is all about destabilising things and stealing money from system.
”My advice to the youth is that
they should continue to agitate. Yes, the only language that they understand is
constant agitation. If they did not agitate, the Amnesty budget, you remember I
was shouting, it was N20bn, from N56bn.”
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