Avengers Now Target Bridges, Ports, Telecom Facilities

Source: pointblanknews.com

Commandant General of the Riverine Security (Coast Guard), Commander Bibi

Oduku, whose organization is collaborating with security agencies to track

down criminals on the waterways, has alerted the nation to the fact that

the rampaging Niger Delta Avengers were now planning to bomb bridges to

cut off the Niger Delta region from other states.
Among the bridges pencilled down are Choba Bridge, Rivers State, Kaiama

Bridge, Patani, Imo River Bridge between Rivers and Abia; and the bridge

linking Rivers and Akwa-Ibom in Ogoni axis.
The outlaws are also alleged to be targeting Nigeria Port Authority, NPA,

Warri; NPA, Port Harcourt; NPA Onne; NPA Calabar; MTN; Airtel; Glo and

Etisalat facilities in the Niger Delta region with other major oil and gas

facilities.
He urged security agencies to take proactive steps to forestall these

attacks and this comes as there are cracks in the ranks of the former

militants
While the Avengers have vehemently opposed to any negotiation with Abuja,

other groups in the region are ready to parley with the federal

government.
“This is to inform the general public that we are not negotiating with

any committee. If the Federal Government is discussing with any group,

they are doing that on their own'', Avengers had declared.

But the Joint Revolutionary Council, JRC, of the Joint Niger Delta

Liberation Front, JNDLF, the presumed umbrella group of militants in the

region, countered the Avengers, at the weekend, saying militants would

jaw-jaw with government.
The JRC 'General Duties', Akotebe Darikoro, in a statement, with three

others, informed they were already in talks with the government.

It said: “We shall continue to engage in dialogue with the Federal

Government if our demands are met. “Our representatives in the dialogue,

especially the governors and others, will not betray our demands with the

Federal Government. Any betrayal on their own part shall be viewed as

betrayal of the entire region and we shall go after them immediately as

they know our mode of operation in which they will not escape from us.''

On the plea by MEND that it should negotiate with Abuja, Avengers in a

statement by its spokesperson, 'Brig General' Mudoch Agbinobi,  described

MEND as a band of criminal elements and political sidekicks of one of the

South-South governors and an ex-governor from the region.

“The NDA is unperturbed, we have a mandate that is clearly a departure

from those old tactics of the defunct so-called MEND that indulged in

kidnapping, hostage taking, sea piracy, illegal oil bunkering, bank

robberies and social crimes''.
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