Niger-Delta group claims responsibility for attack on military formations
The leadership of Ifalibabou
Revolutionary Movement (IRV) has claimed responsibility for the recent
attacks on military formations and piracy on the waterways along the
creeks of the Niger Delta region.
The group made this known in a statement issued yesterday in Yenagoa by its leader, Gen.Keithy Sese, popularly known as Nomukeme.
The statement said the failure of “those in charge of the amnesty programme to include members of IRV in the third phase of the programme has forced them back to the creeks to take up arms against the society.”
The statement reads in part: “Ifalibabou Revolutionary Movement wishes to express the fact that the bane of the current attacks on military formations, sea piracy and general unrest across the creeks of Niger Delta, is as a result of the failure of the third phase federal amnesty and the amnesty process in general. The stock of Niger Delta youths currently marauding the creeks are former members of the group. They are everywhere in the Niger Delta, from the part of the region bordering Cameroon and Nigeria down to Delta and Ondo states. The leadership of the group forsees this circumstance and had made several protests in the past both on the streets and on paper to the federal government, but the system had been unable to check the excesses of those leaders in the Niger Delta who are bent on fighting against the inclusion of this group in the amnesty process.”
The group noted that of about 3,000 of its members, only 26 persons were absorbed in the amnesty programme. It added that when the JTF came to Foropa Town in Southern Ijaw Local Government for a disarmament programme on December 30, 2010, over 100 members of Ifalibabou group relinquished their arms, but only one youth was absorbed from the community.
The group made this known in a statement issued yesterday in Yenagoa by its leader, Gen.Keithy Sese, popularly known as Nomukeme.
The statement said the failure of “those in charge of the amnesty programme to include members of IRV in the third phase of the programme has forced them back to the creeks to take up arms against the society.”
The statement reads in part: “Ifalibabou Revolutionary Movement wishes to express the fact that the bane of the current attacks on military formations, sea piracy and general unrest across the creeks of Niger Delta, is as a result of the failure of the third phase federal amnesty and the amnesty process in general. The stock of Niger Delta youths currently marauding the creeks are former members of the group. They are everywhere in the Niger Delta, from the part of the region bordering Cameroon and Nigeria down to Delta and Ondo states. The leadership of the group forsees this circumstance and had made several protests in the past both on the streets and on paper to the federal government, but the system had been unable to check the excesses of those leaders in the Niger Delta who are bent on fighting against the inclusion of this group in the amnesty process.”
The group noted that of about 3,000 of its members, only 26 persons were absorbed in the amnesty programme. It added that when the JTF came to Foropa Town in Southern Ijaw Local Government for a disarmament programme on December 30, 2010, over 100 members of Ifalibabou group relinquished their arms, but only one youth was absorbed from the community.
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