Buhari must head negotiation group - ND group

A Niger Delta group named the United Niger Delta Energy
Development Security Strategy (UNDEDSS), has proferred
a list of solutions to the crises plaguing the region.
UNDEDSS said for the crises in the Niger Delta to be
brought to a quick resolution, the first step is that
President Muhammadu Buhari should personally chair the
dialogue team and also appoint credible Special Adviser from the region.
According to Daily Post, this solutions were offered in a
statement by the group. The statement by its Secretary
General, Tony Iprinye Uranta also urged the Buhari-led
Federal Government to follow the holistic 2009 Amnesty
Dynamics former President, Umar Yar’adua deployed in
putting an end to the agitation in the region.
The group in its staement also urged the federal
government to re-establish the Niger Delta Committee/
Council that operated five sub-Committees with the aim
of addressing arms agitation in the region.
The statement reads:
“UNDEDSS and other leading stakeholders in the region
have tirelessly interfaced with very senior members of this
Administration and given them a detailed template the
President should deploy now to resolve this growing
insecurity in the region, which is negatively impacting all of
Nigeria.
In the light of of the conflicting statements being made by
too many putative representatives of both the region and
the Federal Government, it is necessary, however, to state
that the Niger Delta is not going to know sustainable peace
via the coterie of so-called Contact Groups or Committees.
And, that there cannot be any reliable dialogue, between the
FGN and the region, without a commitment to Justice and
Equity by President Buhari himself.”
UNDEDSS also stressed that the Federal Government
should also adopt the 2008 Niger Delta Technical
Committee’s Report.
Meanwhile as the Niger Delta Avengers continue to
destroy pipelines and affect the country’s oil export.
Niger Delta Suicides, another militant group in the region,
has cautioned that it would devastate the economy in
different forms if Buhari refused to create a genuine
platform for negotiations with militants.
NDS issued a statement saying: “We, the Niger Delta
Suicides wish to warn the present government and those
clamoring to frustrate the efforts of Niger Delta Avengers to
have a rethink and create a genuine platform for dialogue,
otherwise, we will use our oil to survive and they will eat
their yam.”