Buhari Knows What to Do to End N'Delta Crisis, UNDEDSS Says
The
United Niger Delta Energy Development Security Strategy (UNDEDSS) on
Thursday said President Muhammadu Buhari knows exactly what to do to end
the Niger Delta crisis arising from militancy.
UNDEDSS
Secretary, Mr. Tony Uranta, who made this disclosure, said they had
drawn up proposals that captures the interests of all the parties
involved in the agitation in the Niger Delta.
In
a statement made available to journalists, the coalition said, "President
Buhari knows exactly what he needs to do to end the crisis today, if
he so desires!
"He
probably has not, because he has allowed his administration to be beset
with too many petty rivalries, too many individuals jockeying for
putative relevance, and too many party chieftains
of Niger Delta origin who don't have the interests of the region at
heart!"
He
said this is the position of UNDEDSS and other well meaning Niger Delta
citizens, who interfacing with patriotic members of the president's
inner cabinet and intelligence chieftains,
have drawn up a proposal that should be 'win-win' for all parties
concerned.
He
further said, "This dynamically-tweaked proposal is before the president, the armed agitators in the creeks, the international
community (including the UK and the USA) and other relevantly
interested Nigerians like Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka.
"The
proposal is hinged on four vital prerequisites, viz., the affirmation
by the president that there is no change in policy regarding the need to
commence Matriculation of students
this year in the National Maritime University, Okerenkoko, Delta State;
the rebirth of the Niger Delta Council (with its five relevant
sub-committees!) of President Yaradua's 2009 Template.
"And
the guarantee of safe passage for delegates to any dialogue locations,
after all armed parties publicly agree to a 60-days Armistice to be
proposed by the federal government; and, the attendance
of Foreign Observers (including Diplomats from the EU, UK & USA), to
be invited by the federal government to any such dialogue.
"This
proposal has been presented to President Buhari over four weeks ago,
after many meetings between the FGN (represented at different points by
the chief of staff to Mr. President,
the DG DSS, the EFCC chairman, the DG NIA, the minister of state for
petroleum...etc.) on the one hand, and credible Niger Deltans (including
past special advisers to Nigerian Presidents on the Niger Delta, UN
consultants and former apex 'Creeks Generals' of
the three zones of the Niger Delta) plus prominent members of the 2009
Aaron Team that negotiated with President Yaradua in 2009.
"Ultimately,
UNDEDSS calls on President Muhammadu Buhari to exhibit the patriotic
and objective decisiveness necessary to end the ongoing crisis in the
Niger Delta, by announcing his
adoption of the said proposal now."
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