The militant group, Niger Delta Avengers, has accused President Muhammadu Buhari of alleged plans to carry out extra-judicial killings in the troubled region.
The NDA revealed this in an open letter to the President posted on its website.
It accused President Buhari of trying to use the military to sack the people of the region.
The groups letter reads, “Dear President Muhammadu Buhari, please, also tell those foreign nations that you are always at ease talking to, while refusing to listen to Nigerians, that your troops are about to carrying out extra-judicial killings in the Niger Delta in violation of article four of the Geneva Convention with “OPERATION CROCODILE SMILES”.
“All sane minds know the meaning of ” CROCRODILE TEARS”; so by code-naming your military operation CROCODILE SMILES only betrays your motives and attitude to the whole world about the Niger Delta question.
“The whole world will surely applaud you in The Hague when you leave office! This is not the Nigeria and the world of the 1980s and 1990s under General Sani Abacha and your watch.”
The group, therefore, urged President Buhari to stop pandering to the requests of his imperial masters whenever he’s outside the shores of the country.
“We call on President Muhammadu Buhari to put away the garb of a stooge to the imperialists, whenever he speaks outside Nigeria.
“We have listened carefully and halted hostilities in the Niger Delta; we expect a genuine and positive attitude to restructuring and self-determination for every component unit of Nigeria. Dear president, what makes those countries (Japan, Germany, France, USA, Britain etc.) great is the ability of their governments to accommodate internal protestations and conflicts for the greater good of their nations over the years,” the group said.
Continuing, the militant group said, “Nigeria is not a one-man personal property; we must have these talks every time if this union must continue to work as one.”
The NDA noted that President Buhari could deceive the whole world, adding that they (militants) could not be deceived by the ongoing military operations in the creeks Of Ijaw communities in the Delta code-named ” Operation Crocodile Smiles.”
“The world should know that with your pronouncement in Kenya and your attitude to the military build-up in the Niger Delta, it is crystal clear that the military has nothing less than a pre-determined genocide in Niger Delta and burn more already scared national resources to the pockets of those that have failed to locate the missing Chibok school girls.
“The people of the Niger Delta have been living here from time immemorial, so we have the secret of the terrain and survival of amphibious operations.
“No amount of troop surge and simulation exercises will make you win the oil war, you can only win battles. You cannot apply the might of the state to restore the people’s confidence in your leadership when you cannot differentiate between genuine demands and being mismanaged by disorganized characters and tribal lords around you in your government that are playing the court jesters role as well as counting the days that is left in your four years term,” it added.
