One of the defiant militant groups in the Niger Delta known as the Niger Delta Greenland Justice Movement, NDGJM, has announced that will cease bombing of oil installations and hostilities forthwith.
The leader of the group, who simply identified himself as ODU, rang Sunday Vanguard on to announce the group’s decision to end hostilities. He said: ”NDGJM has accepted to stop bombing of pipelines in obedience to the call by Niger Delta leaders at the meeting convened in Effurun, August 19 by a former Federal Commissioner for Information, Chief Edwin Clark.” He, however, demanded that the Urhobo ethnic nationality should not be left out in the dialogue and negotiations by the leaders with the Federal Government.
The NDGJM leader said the group would nominate its own representatives in the pan-Niger Delta group. A source familiar with the ceasefire said the deal was brokered by Clark, who sent emissaries to leaders of the group to key into the peace process in the region. “Chief Clark’s team met with the leaders of the militant group and briefed them on the efforts to make peace in the region. They assured the militant group’s leader that nobody would subjugate Urhobo interest in the dialogue and negotiations, but there was no monetary attachment,” the source added.
With the ceasefire, the coast is hopefully cleared for the oil companies in the region to operate.
Culled from: Vanguard Newspaper
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