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Terrorism:
MEND Warns Boko Haram
THE Niger Delta
Indigenous Movement for Radical Change,a seeming left wing group
in Nigeria's oil and gas region, has threatened to mobilise some
unrepentant militants in the region, to take the current
''terrorist battle'' to Boko Haram and their sponsors in the
northern part of the county.
They are in the mean
time, requesting the Northern political and religious leaders to
choose between to continued existence of Nigeria as a country
and the ''extremist Islamic militant group'' Boko Haram.
It was learnt that the
group have also warned members of the alleged Islamic terrorist
group against further destabilization of the administration of
President Goodluck Jonathan, warning that they have the capacity
to return fire with fire.
They have therefore,
urged President Jonathan to set in motion a process for a
declaration of a state of emergency in the troubled states of
the North, but that in the interim, he should order the security
agencies to raid the palaces of some prominent traditional
rulers in the north allegedly suspected to be behind the
terrorist group.
The Niger Delta group is
of the view that the worsening security situation in the country
''is a calculated attempt to discredit the administration of
President Jonathan. But let it be known to the Boko Haram and
their sponsors that we will resist any attempt to destabilize
the current administration of President Jonathan and that we are
ready to spill our last blood to defend his administration''.
These facts were
contained in an on-line statement to Watchdogreporters on
Monday by the President of the Niger Delta group, Nelly Emma,
Secretary, John Sailor and Public Relations Officer, Mukoro
Stanley.
They are accusing some
prominent royal fathers in the north of sponsoring the alleged
terrorist Islamic group, in order to create crisis in the
country, insisting that any plot against President Jonathan by
the North will be resisted by any means necessary.
According to them, ''we
have been watching with total dismay the activities of Boko
Haram in some parts of the country and we hereby warn that
enough is enough; Boko Haram must give peace a chance, stop
disturbing one of our own, President Jonathan as we are not
going to take it easy with anybody or group of persons trying to
make the country ungovernable for the President''.
While opposing calls for
withdrawal of soldiers from Borno State, the group said ''this
is one request President Jonathan must turn down because such
agitations are self-serving. Some prominent leaders in the North
including their traditional rulers are backing Boko Haram to
cause havoc in the country.”
They are accordingly
imploring President Jonathan to use the Joint Task Force (JTF),
State Security Service (SSS), and the Police to search places of
some royal fathers in the north, claiming that there will be
shocking discoveries.
In a seeming angry tune,
they said, ''Boko-Haram and their sponsors should not dare the
rest of us from the Niger Delta. Please, help us warn them to
desist from stepping on the lion’s tail. We will not hesitate to
respond in like measures for the sake of President Jonathan and
our country''.
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