No fewer than 600 ex-militants have, yesterday, threatened to storm the National Assembly to protest against what they referred to as the selfishness of Northern elite.
Specifically, the ex-militants said that they would
march to the House of Representatives which recently summoned the
chairman of the Amnesty Implementation Committee, Hon. Kingsley Kuku and
the leader of the Niger Delta Peoples Volunteer Force, Asari Dokubo,
over their alleged inflammatory statements on the 2015 presidential
poll.
In the separate statements issued by the coalition of
ex-militants under the aegis of Leadership, Peace and Cultural
Development Initiative (LPCDI), yesterday, in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa state
capital, a former member of the Upper Senate Chamber of the Movement
for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), Comrade Eris Paul, also
known in the creeks as Commander Ogunboss, insisted that the decision of
the ex-militants to storm the National Assembly was based on the
perceived ethnic and parochial intents behind the summon by the House of
Representatives.
The LPCDI, in its statement signed by its President,
General Pastor Reuben Wilson, described the summon by the House of
Representatives as “divisive” and an”attempt to ignite the ethnic keg of
gun powder in the country.”
Ogunboss, however, described the summon as a show of
undemocratic tendencies on the part of a serving governor who believed
that he was is protecting the unity of an already disorganised society.
Wilson said the posture of the House of
Representatives was a show of bias and double standards in the
monitoring of alleged volatile posture of the political class ahead of
the 2015 polls.
The former member of the Upper Chamber of the MEND,
Comrade Eris Paul, accused Governor Mu’azu Aliyu Babangida of Niger
state of bias and wickedness, adding, “It is a show of senselessness on
the part of a serving governor who thinks he is protecting the unity of
an already disorganised society by some Northern cabals.”
“If Aliyu thinks he is sincere enough to protect the
nation from an impending doom, let him call on the security agencies to
begin their investigations with Muhammadu Buhari who, in recent times,
has been crying foul over threats of bloodshed and revolt as witnessed
in Egypt and Tunisia. We all know in this country that just minutes
after Buhari’s presidential loss to Jonathan in 2011, riots broke out,
where houses of the president’s loyalists where burnt in parts of the
North, properties destroyed and lives lost.”
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