Niger Delta Avengers writes open letter to President Buhari, alleges pre-determined genocide in the region
Niger
Delta Avengers have written an open letter to President Buhari, accusing him of
using the military through its new formation, Operation Crocodile Smile,
to carry out pre-determined genocide in the Niger Delta region. The Nigerian
Army last week launched the "Operation Crocodile Smile" which they
say is just a training drill designed to prepare the Amphibious Division
for a better mastery of the Niger Delta terrain.
The militant groups in its open letter, allege that the military formation is part of a pre-determined genocide to be carried out in the Niger Delta region. The group says President Buhari's statement in Kenya over the weekend that they should come forward for negotiation or be treated as Boko Haram members, gives credence to the allegations of pre-determined genocide. Read the statement signed by the group's spokesperson, Brig.Gen Mudoch Agbinibo, below...
We call on President Muhammadu Buhari to put
away the garb of a stooge to the imperialists, whenever he speaks outside
Nigeria. We have listened carefully and halted hostilities in the Niger Delta;
we expect a genuine and positive attitude to restructuring and
self-determination for every component unit of Nigeria. Dear president, what
makes those countries (Japan, Germany, France, USA, Britain etc.) great is the
ability of their governments to accommodate internal protestations and
conflicts for the greater good of their nations over the years. Please stop
presenting your government as pawn to the web of military industrialists
complex, whenever you leave the shores of Nigeria.
Nigeria is not a one-man personal property we
must have these talks every time if this union must continue to work as one.
The people of the Niger Delta have been living here from time immemorial, so we
have the secret of the terrain and survival of amphibious operations. No amount
of troop surge and simulation exercises will make you win the oil war, you can
only win battles.
You cannot apply the might of the state to
restore the people's confidence in your leadership when you cannot
differentiate between genuine demands and being mismanaged by disorganized
characters and tribal lords around you in your government that are playing the
court jesters role as well as counting the days that is left in your four years
term. You can deceive the whole world but We cannot be deceived by the so
glamorized ongoing military operations in the creeks Of Ijaw communities in the
Delta coded " Operation Crocodile Smiles"... the world should know
that with your pronouncement in Kenya and your attitude to the military build
up in the Niger Delta, it is crystal clear that the military has nothing less
than a pre-determined genocide in Niger Delta and burn more already scared
national resources to the pockets of those that have failed to locate the
missing Chiboks School Girls.
Conclusively, dear President Muhammadu Buhari
please also tell those foreign nations that you are always at ease talking to,
while refusing to listen to Nigerians that your troops are about to carrying
out extra judicial killings in the Niger Delta in violation of article four of
the Geneva Convention with "OPERATION CROCODILE SMILES". All sane
minds knows the meaning of " CROCRODILE TEARS" so by code-naming your
military operation CROCODILE SMILES only betrays your motives and attitude to
the whole world about the Niger Delta question.
The whole world will surely applaud you in The
Hague when you leave office! This is not the Nigeria and the world of the 1980s
and 1990s under General Sani Abacha and your watch.

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