Niger Delta Avengers have written an open letter to President Buhari,
accusing him of using the military through its new formation, Operation
Crocodile Smile, to carry out pre-determined genocide in the Niger
Delta region. The Nigerian Army last week launched the "Operation
Crocodile Smile" which they say is just a training drill designed to
prepare the Amphibious Division for a better mastery of the Niger Delta
terrain.
The militant groups in its open letter, allege that
the military formation is part of a pre-determined genocide to be
carried out in the Niger Delta region. The group says President Buhari's
statement in Kenya over the weekend that they should come forward for
negotiation or be treated as Boko Haram members, gives credence to the
allegations of pre-determined genocide. Read the statement signed by the
group's spokesperson, Brig.Gen Mudoch Agbinibo, below...
We call on President Muhammadu Buhari to put away the garb of a stooge
to the imperialists, whenever he speaks outside Nigeria. We have
listened carefully and halted hostilities in the Niger Delta; we expect a
genuine and positive attitude to restructuring and self-determination
for every component unit of Nigeria. Dear president, what makes those
countries (Japan, Germany, France, USA, Britain etc.) great is the
ability of their governments to accommodate internal protestations and
conflicts for the greater good of their nations over the years. Please
stop presenting your government as pawn to the web of military
industrialists complex, whenever you leave the shores of Nigeria.
Nigeria is not a one-man personal property we must have these talks
every time if this union must continue to work as one. The people of the
Niger Delta have been living here from time immemorial, so we have the
secret of the terrain and survival of amphibious operations. No amount
of troop surge and simulation exercises will make you win the oil war,
you can only win battles.
You cannot apply the might of the state to restore the people's
confidence in your leadership when you cannot differentiate between
genuine demands and being mismanaged by disorganized characters and
tribal lords around you in your government that are playing the court
jesters role as well as counting the days that is left in your four
years term. You can deceive the whole world but We cannot be deceived by
the so glamorized ongoing military operations in the creeks Of Ijaw
communities in the Delta coded " Operation Crocodile Smiles"... the
world should know that with your pronouncement in Kenya and your
attitude to the military build up in the Niger Delta, it is crystal
clear that the military has nothing less than a pre-determined genocide
in Niger Delta and burn more already scared national resources to the
pockets of those that have failed to locate the missing Chiboks School
Girls.
Conclusively, dear President Muhammadu Buhari please also tell those
foreign nations that you are always at ease talking to, while refusing
to listen to Nigerians that your troops are about to carrying out extra
judicial killings in the Niger Delta in violation of article four of the
Geneva Convention with "OPERATION CROCODILE SMILES". All sane minds
knows the meaning of " CROCRODILE TEARS" so by code-naming your military
operation CROCODILE SMILES only betrays your motives and attitude to
the whole world about the Niger Delta question.
The whole world will surely applaud you in The Hague when you leave
office! This is not the Nigeria and the world of the 1980s and 1990s
under General Sani Abacha and your watch.
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