The deputy governor of Delta state, Kingsley Otuaro, has urged militants to abort the plan to recommence bombing of oil installations in the Niger Delta region.
Otuaro who serves as chairman, Delta State Advocacy Committee Against Oil Facility Vandalism, (DSACAOFV) on Tuesday, December 10, said dialogue remains the option towards resolving the Niger Delta crisis, Vanguard reports.
The deputy governor said: “The dialogue option has not been exhausted, so there is no need for militants to bomb critical national oil assets as a way of expressing their grievances.”
Otuaro’s plea to the militants comes on the heels of renewed threats by some militants to resume fresh hostilities in the Niger Delta, following the federal government’s alleged decision not to dialogue with the Pan Niger Delta Forum, PANDEF.
Militants have also alleged that that the federal government had turned the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) to All Progressives Party (APC) secretariat, and warned that the commission “will be the first casualty of the renewed hostilities in the region because what we have discovered is so outrageous and shameful.”
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