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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