Niger Delta Avengers: Buhari Told to Look Beyond N’Delta for Solution

As attacks on oil and gas pipelines  in the Niger Delta intensify,  a former spokesman of  the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP), Mr. Daniel Alabrah, has advised President Muhammadu Buhari to look beyond the region for a solution to the renewed violence by the Niger Delta Avengers (NDA).

Alabrah said as a journalist who extensively reported the era of militancy in the region before becoming one of the managers of the Amnesty Programme, it was necessary to lend a voice as a patriotic duty to the country.

Stating this in a press release on Sunday, Alabrah also urged the president to be wary of  those he described as fifth columnist politicians within and outside the region whose aim is to cause further tension in the Niger Delta.

 

“Genuine stakeholders should no longer remain aloof at a time like this. It is akin to Emperor Nero fiddling while Rome is on fire.

 “What is happening in the Niger Delta at the moment is not militancy. Militancy is no longer attractive in the region due to the role of the Amnesty Programme in engendering peace and stabilizing of security. If it is militancy, where are the camps?

 “The wrong identification of the problem has led to a wrong prognosis. The government has equally responded wrongly. Applying force alone cannot be the solution even if you deployed all the soldiers in the military. It should learn from the late President Umaru Yar’Adua’s experience and how his masterstroke ended militancy in the region.

 “The attack on pipelines and oil installations is pure criminality and sabotage. But it requires intelligence gathering to effectively tackle it. Forces beyond and outside the region appear to be behind the current wave of sabotage of oil facilities. The government and the security agencies need to look deeper and cast their intelligence net wider to unravel the masterminds of these nefarious acts,” he said.

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