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THE AVENGERS ARE AT IT AGAIN: AUGUST 1 DECLARATION

Adaka Boro Avengers called on Igbos and south south people to return home

– It promised to declare an independent republic on August 1

– The group also ordered Yoruba and Hausa people out of the region

A group, Adaka Boro Avengers has warned south east and south south people to return back to the region as a date has been set for the declaration of the Niger Delta Republic.

A lot of militant groups have sprung-up in the Niger Delta region vandalising oil and gas pipelines with the Niger Delta Avengers being the most notorious as it has claimed responsibility for bombing of vandalism.

According to Independent, the group specifically called on former president, Goodluck Jonathan, Chief Edwin Clark; King Alfred Diete Spiff; Ankio Briggs; Joseph Eva; Patrick Fufein, Pastor Good, past and present military personnel from the Niger Delta region, present senators and members of the Houses of Representatives to come to Kaiama for the official declaration of the independent republic which is scheduled for Monday, August 1.

The spokesperson of the group, General Edmos Ayayeibo in a statement issued on Sunday, July 24 ordered people from the north and the south west to vacate the South-South before August 1.

Ayayeibo also called on the federal government to “move out all military personnel and all government agencies out of the Niger Delta as failure will lead to destruction of military barracks and personnel.”

He also warned that Hausa and Yoruba people who remained in the region after August 1 will have themselves to blame for whatever befalls them.

“The Nigerian community is aware of what happened some weeks back after our seven days ultimatum given to the multinational oil companies in the Niger Delta. Every one witnessed how many lives that were lost and how many oil installations that were destroyed,”

“We are also using this medium to call on the Niger Delta famous sons and daughters. Pa E. K. Clark, King Alfred Diete Spiff, His Excellency Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, Ankio Briggs, Joseph Eva, Patrick Fufein, Pastor Good, the children of late Pa Isaac Adaka Boro, past and present military personnel from the Niger Delta region.

“Past and present governors from the Niger Delta, past and present senators and Houses of Representatives members.

“Finally all sons and daughters of Niger Delta Republic to come to Kaiama for the official declaration of the Niger Delta Republic.”

The threat of forced eviction has however been dismissed by leaders of the Hausa and Yoruba communities in the region.

Mallam Rabiu Abdulraman who is the leader of Hausa youths spoke in the Igbudu area of Warri where he said that while the Ijaw militants had the right to agitate “for whatever they claim to be their right, they should also remember that other law-abiding Nigerian citizens who believe in the unity of the country have their rights to be protected and live in any part of the country of their choice.”

Mr. Abiodun Oguntomisin, a Yoruba youth residing in the region said the group had no right to chase Yoruba people from any parts of the country.

He said that the Yoruba also have militant group in Nigeria known to all and warned the Niger Delta militants to rethink their decision.

He accused the militants of being selfish and that “nobody will benefit from this unbridled brigandage of the Niger Delta militants.

Their leaders and our so-called human rights groups should call them to order now instead of keeping quiet in the face of the wreckage they are causing the nation because of imagined or perceived marginalisation by successive governments.”

The group has earlier shown interest in teaming up with the Niger Delta Avengers to destroy more oil installation in the region.

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