Rallied under a body, the United Niger Delta Energy Development Security Strategy (UNDEDSS), leaders of the south-south zone have condemned what they deem the current anti-nationalistic politics of hatred that have recently become the norm with certain elder statesmen in the country.
Rising from an emergency meeting in Warri, Delta State, the group also frowned at the lull in the National Assembly’s on the passing of The Petroleum Industrial Bill. UNDEDSS dubbed the action in the federal parliament a myopic insistence on perpetuating artificial dichotomy of ethnicity that militate against policies and programmes that are intended to fast-track national economic development.
“This country’s security agencies must not continue to let otherwise-respected elder statesmen and political leaders of the ilk of General Muhammadu Buhari get away with dangerous statements that could trigger severe social dislocations, including terrorist and genocidal acts in different flashpoint parts of Nigeria,” declared Mr. Tony I. Uranta, Secretary-General of UNDEDSS.
Uranta asserted that, “General Buhari, in particular, in his capacity as a national leader of Fulani herdsmen, is expected to play a key role in stopping the on-going genocidal massacres of Middle Belt and other non-herdsmen villagers; rather, for purely reasons of political ambition and hatred this man is in the vanguard of trying to protect the Boko Haram from being purged from Nigeria!”
UNDEDSS declared that unless the PIB becomes law within the next three months, the Federal Government of Nigeria and other oil and gas exploiters will be denied access to these natural resources that have led to the impoverishment of the people of the region and the despoliation of its environment with so very little to show for it.
“Anybody who thinks this is an idle joke, is welcome to dare fate,” says Uranta, “three months is just ninety days from now…soon, we shall know who really owns what in this nation-state. Let’s wait and see if the NASS is intent on joining Buhari and company to break up Nigeria.”
UNDESS also condemned the irrational focus on petty in-fighting amongst state governors who are apparently not very interested in good governance or the common good and warned that it shall mobilise the citizenry of the Niger Delta to commence non-violent acts of sustained civil disobedience actions, from next month, in opposition to such selfish and corrupt governors of Niger Delta states that persist in such wickedly anti-people activities.
“Enough is enough!” said the UNDEDSS scribe, who ended by “calling on FGN to motivate the holding of regional mini-dialogues this year, and to convene a national dialogue within the first quarter of 2014.
“We cannot afford to let Nigeria break…but no Nigerian must be expected to celebrate a 100 years of oppression, feudalism, revisionism, despotism and corruption, if there is no fundamental restructuring of this nation, such that we build on our commonality and resolve our differences peaceably, and create a truly united Nigeria premised on justice, equity, understanding, good governance and rule-of-law.”
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