Kachikwu made the appeal while briefing newsmen on Monday in Abuja
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The newspaper said a security source, who spoke with it on phone, said the attack occurred around 6.30pm
The group has within a matter of weeks blown up enough oil and gas infrastructure to cripple the economy of the country. In the space of time they have killed several troops and policemen sent to the Niger Delta to stop their attacks on critical infrastructure. They have issued more threats to blow up more installations and kill any additional troops sent to the area
He said while his government would not shy away from finding non-military solution to the vandalism and destruction of oil facilities in the country, it would not succumb to intimidation and blackmail by any criminal element
But the group said the Army Chief lied because it was not its members that killed the soldiers but their inexperience in the terrain where they had come to operate
The suspected vandals opened fire on the patrol team
Retired Brigadier General Paul Boroh, the Special Adviser to the President on Niger-Delta Matters and Coordinator of the Amnesty Programme, said this at the end of a meeting he convened in Benin
Also of importance here is that while the government loses billions of dollars in revenue as a result of these vandalisms, the integrity of the already degraded region’s environment is further compromised due to the spillages from the damaged pipelines
The NDA runs a website (created in February 2016) where it posts news items and statements; and in terms of rhetoric, and activities, there is no doubt that the various groups are indeed on “a vengeance mission”. They are angry over what they consider the continued marginalization of the Niger Delta, the unjust allocation of oil mining licenses to persons from non-oil producing areas, the hounding of officials and associates of the Jonathan administration by the present administration (hence General Torunanawei, coordinator of the Red Egbesu Water Lions issues a seven-day ultimatum calling for the release of Colonel Sambo Dasuki, and the de-freezing of the accounts of ex-militant leader Government Ekpemupolo)
All of these establishments were created to bring about meaningful development to the region regardless of the wanton destruction the militants and war lords of the Niger Delta region have inflicted on the nation. Former president Umaru Yar’Adua granted amnesty and unconditional pardon to all persons who
Speaking at a meeting with the Global Director (Upstream) of the Royal Dutch Shell Group, Andrew Brown, President Buhari said he has directed the Chief of Naval Staff to reorganise and strengthen the military Joint Task Force in the Niger Delta to deal effectively with the resurgence of militancy and the sabotage of oil installation
Abel said government would henceforth make direct payment of the N65,000 monthly stipend paid to the former agitators rather than making such payment through their leaders and proxies
He said the militants were about 20 in number and they came in two speed boats fitted with several General Purpose Machine Guns and also possessed grenades among other sophisticated weapons
She said the command had also reached out to commands in other states to block their waterways against militants’ infiltration into Akwa Ibom State
The spokeswoman of the command, DSP Patricia Amadin, disclosed this in a statement in Lagos
The Presidential Amnesty Office in Abuja on Friday commenced the payment of outstanding stipends to ex-agitators in the Niger Delta…
He said: “Of late, you noticed that in Cross River, especially in Calabar, there has been an increase in kidnapping and theft cases spearheaded by militants, the latest being the attack on Marine Police.
The repentant militant leaders, under the aegis of the Leadership, Peace and Cultural Development Initiative, said they decided to be more involved in the electoral process because they were major stakeholders and would not sit and watch people rob the President of victory at the polls
Reports reaching The Eagle Online has it that the ex-militants blocked the road to protest the failure of the Kingsley Kuku-led Amnesty office to pay them their allowances
The prayer session, which holds at the Ijaw House, Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, is being powered by the Leadership, Peace and Cultural Development Initiative, the umbrella body of all the leaders of militant camps that were involved in the struggle before accepting the amnesty offer of government, in partnership with the presidential amnesty office headed by Kingsley Kuku