{"id":49311,"date":"2016-05-17T11:15:13","date_gmt":"2016-05-17T10:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=49311"},"modified":"2016-05-18T07:00:16","modified_gmt":"2016-05-18T06:00:16","slug":"ex-militants-niger-delta-avengers-will-not-support-secession-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/ex-militants-niger-delta-avengers-will-not-support-secession-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-militants to Niger Delta Avengers:\u00a0 We Will Not Support Your Secession Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463491895392_9902\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463491895392_9903\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0Ex-militants in the Niger Delta have dissociated themselves from the secession declaration made weekend by the new\u00a0militant group, Niger Delta Avengers (NDA), which<a href=\"http:\/\/Pointblanknews.com\"> Pointblanknews.com<\/a> exclusively reported.<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463491895392_9906\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463491895392_9907\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">The ex-warlords said they were not part of the proposal to break away from the Nigerian state by the group which has gone on a bombing spree in the last couple of months.<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463491895392_9908\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463491895392_9909\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">They spoke under the aegis of the defunct Niger Delta\u00a0Liberation Force (NDLF), saying that the time was not yet\u00a0ripe for the Niger Delta people to declare self-government.<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463491895392_9912\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463491895392_9913\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">This is contained in a statement signed by its spokesperson,\u00a0Colonel Mark Anthony and made available to<a href=\"http:\/\/Pointblanknews.com\">\u00a0Pointblanknews.com<\/a><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463491895392_9916\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463491895392_9917\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">NDLF condemned in its entirety the current bombings,\u00a0describing it as a \u2018\u2019sinister ambition with ulterior\u00a0motive by trying to drag us into their fight\u2019\u2019, adding\u00a0\u2018\u2019we have not discussed Niger Delta Republic in any\u00a0meeting as agenda\u2019\u2019.<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463491895392_9922\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463491895392_9923\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">The group wondered how a \u2018\u2019handful of disgruntled\u00a0Youths will try to deceive Nigerians by putting us in their\u00a0particular failed business transactions with the federal\u00a0government\u2019\u2019.<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463491895392_9927\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463491895392_9928\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stressing that NDFL was not aware of the insidious plan as it\u00a0was never discussed anywhere in their meeting as such they\u00a0would never throw its weight behind calls for the region to\u00a0secede from Nigeria.<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463491895392_9932\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463491895392_9933\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">In a veil attack on ex-militant leader, High Chief Government\u00a0Ekpemupolo alias Tompolo , the ex-agitators said: \u2018\u2019Our\u00a0son just left office and you were enjoying juicy contracts\u00a0from the administration of former president, Dr. Goodluck\u00a0Jonathan. We urge you to face the Nigerian Army like late\u00a0NDLF leader, late General John Togo.\u2019\u2019<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463491895392_9939\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463491895392_9940\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">The ex-militants reiterated that they would not be part of\u00a0\u2018\u2019your proposed Niger Delta Republic now and urged the\u00a0military to smoke out the perpetrators and bring them to face\u00a0the music as they are \u2018\u2019common criminals\u2019\u2019.<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463491895392_9944\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463491895392_9945\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463491895392_9946\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463491895392_9947\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463491895392_9948\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><strong>Bayelsa Loses N24bn Annually to Payroll Fraudsters, Says Gov Dickson<\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463491895392_9949\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463491895392_9950\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">A whooping sum of N24 billion is said to have been scammed from the state government annually through ghost workers and other fraudulent practices, Governor Dickson Sieraki has disclosed.<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463491895392_9951\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">The governor lamented that over N100 billion has so far been paid by his administration in the last four years on bonds and overpayments made to his predecessors.<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463491895392_9952\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Of this the sum, he bemoaned,<span id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463491895392_9953\">\u00a0 <\/span>a hefty sum \u00a0of N1.3 billion is deducted as bonds, while more than one billion naira goes for what he described as overpayments, totaling \u00a0about N2.5 billion monthly.<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463491895392_9954\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to the governor, the fraudsters work<span id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463491895392_9955\">\u00a0 <\/span>hand-in-gloves with some dubious financial institutions in the state to pull off the shady deals.<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463491895392_9956\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">The governor gave the insight during a live interview programme in Yenagoa, the state capital,\u00a0 decrying the fifth columnist whom he said has over the years served as a clog in the wheel of his government in arresting the corrupt practices in the workforce.<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463491895392_9957\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stressing that he was poised to clean the Augean stable, governor Dickson said government has introduced a new way of payment of salaries and that directives have been issued to all heads of ministries, departments, agencies and school principals to prepare nominal rolls and payroll vouchers, threatening that \u00a0they would be questioned if there was any suspicion on their documents.<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463491895392_9958\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dickson stated that the current system of payment of salaries was no longer sustainable and blamed it on the dwindling revenue from the federal purse and meager internally generated revenue.<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463491895392_9959\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Shedding light on the workers\u2019 salaries, he said he has discussed with the organized labour on the adoption of 70 per cent pro rata payment or 50 percent across board for all civil servants.<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463491895392_9960\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">On the strike action embarked upon by the state-owned Niger Delta<span id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463491895392_9961\">\u00a0 <\/span>University (NDU), the governor noted that the varsity was weighed down by the problem of over-bloated workforce, underlining that the government has been doling out about N500 million monthly as grant since 2012.<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463491895392_9962\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">He wondered why the institution expends the grant on payment of salaries and urged the authorities to devise means to get more funds to run the institution.<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463491895392_9963\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463491895392_9964\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463491895392_9965\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463491895392_9966\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><em><strong><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463491895392_9968\">Delta Communities give Chevron 72 hours over arrest of five oil workers by JTF<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463491895392_9969\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Delta communities hosting the facilities of Chevron Nigeria Limited (CNL) have rubbished claims by the military that the five persons arrested over the weekend were militants bombing oil and gas facilities in the area.<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463491895392_9970\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">The communities said contrary to the reports, the five alleged militants were actually contract workers for the American oil giants, inspecting earlier bombed pipelines ahead of the visit of the Joint Investigation Visit (JIV) team to inspect the extent of damage when the military troops swooped on them.<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463491895392_9971\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">The communities stated that the workers were with their identification cards and were ferried to the site in Chevron\u2019s boat, adding that their explanations that they were sent for inspection fell on deaf ears as they were taken to the military base at Koko and locked up.<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463491895392_9972\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">To this end, the communities have given Chevron 72 hours to effect the release of the said oil workers or they would be forced to<span id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463491895392_9973\">\u00a0 <\/span>withdraw all the surveillance workers, among other workers working for oil firms in the area as their safety were no longer guaranteed.<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463491895392_9974\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">They accused Chevron of paying lip service to the arrest of the five community workers, saying that the military was harassing and intimidating community oil workers as Chevron has failed to come to their aid.<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463491895392_9975\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Chairman of Kokodiagbene, Comrade Sheriff Mulade, who spoke on behalf of the oil producing communities in the area, expressed dismay over the lukewarm attitude of the management of Chevron over the arrest of the five workers branded Avengers.<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463491895392_9976\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said: \u2018\u2019It is pertinent to state that we are no longer safe in the hands of security agents going by the constant harassment of our people.\u00a0 We have handed a 72-hour ultimatum to Chevron to ensure the release of those arrested oil workers and if they fail to do this, we will withdraw all our services from all the oil companies including, Shell, Chevron, NPDC and Neconde.<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463491895392_9977\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u2018\u2019We are not Niger Delta Avengers. We are law abiding citizens of Nigeria and those workers were doing their legitimate work when the JTF pounced on them and arrested them, thereafter proclaiming to the world that they have arrested Avengers. They should adopt more of intelligence in doing their work otherwise they would end up killing innocent people in the communities.\u2019\u2019<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463491895392_9978\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">In a tersely worded statement, Chevron\u2019s General Manager, Policy, Government and Public Affairs, Deji Haastrup, said: \u2018\u2019 All CNL staff are accounted for.\u00a0 As far as we know, no Chevron employee has been arrested by the JTF. Beyond this, we are not able to comment on JTF operations.\u2019\u2019<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463491895392_9979\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463491895392_9980\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463491895392_9981\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463491895392_9982\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463491895392_9983\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463491895392_9984\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463491895392_9985\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463491895392_9986\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463491895392_9987\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463491895392_9988\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463491895392_9989\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463491895392_9990\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Ex-militants in the Niger Delta have dissociated themselves from the secession declaration made weekend by the new\u00a0militant group, Niger Delta Avengers (NDA), which Pointblanknews.com exclusively reported. 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