Ex-militants threaten fresh oil war in Niger Delta

Aggrieved leadership of Niger Delta United Ex -Agitators of the Presidential Amnesty Programme,( PAP) Phase 3, has vowed to shut down key oil facilities in the region over ill-treatment and failure on the part of the federal government to meet their demands before August 10.

This was contained in a letter written to President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday.

The protest letter was signed by “General” Joseph Akpos Jericho as chairman, General Timibra Gabriel, vice-chairman, General Ivwromon Ebi Ogaga, secretary, and 10 others copied by PAP Office, FCT Abuja, Director General DSS, Inspector-General of Police, IGP, South-South governors, Director, Department of State Security Services, DSS, Delta State Command, and Commander of the Joint Task Force, JTF, Delta State.

The letter read, “We the aggrieved and shortchanged members of Presidential Amnesty Phase 3 and our camp boys who voluntarily disarmed and submitted our arms to willingly embrace the presidential amnesty program (PAP) as proclaimed by President Musa Yar’Adua, because of the promises of a better life for us, hereby issue a protest notice to shut down critical oil locations in the Niger Delta region on or before August 10th if our demands are not properly addressed between now and August 10.

“ We laid down our weapons and allowed the Niger Delta region’s oil to flow freely but none of the promises made by the Presidential Amnesty Programme PAP had been fulfilled.

“Rather, they chose to play politics with our destiny. The PAP officials under the leadership of Colonel Milland Dikio and Fred Kemepado have frustrated all efforts toward getting us enlisted as bonafide ex-agitators despite having our JTF clearance certificates issued to us in 2011. When our correspondences were not responded to, we approached a Warri Federal High Court for redress.”