The Niger Delta Avengers on Monday listed conditions under which it would dialogue with the Federal Government.
Recall that the militant group had last week said it was not part of the ceasefire agreement reportedly reached between th government and Niger Delta militants.
In a statement published on its website, the group said the Federal Government must suspend the purchase of crude oil from the Niger Delta region.
It also warned President Muhammadu Buhari against turning the proposed peace talk and dialogue into a political jamboree.
The group said it only needed a genuine attitude and conducive atmosphere that would engender committment to dialogue and lasting peace.
In the statement signed by the NDA’s spokesperson, Mudoch Agbinibo, the militants also asked the Federal Government to involve member states of the multinational oil corporations to commit independent mediators to the proposed dialogue.
It said the peace talk would set up a framework for achieving the short, medium and long-term demands of the Niger Delta to bring about a lasting peace.
Part of the statement read:
“If need be, we may review our earlier stance of not taking lives. We are going to redirect and reactivate all our activities if the government, oil companies and their services firms don’t heed to these modest warnings of not carrying out any repair works and suspend the buying of crude oil from our region as we await the right atmosphere that would engender genuine dialogue.
“The NDA high command is restating our commitment to attack the interest of oil corporations and international refineries operators that bring in vessels to the Niger Delta territory to buy our oil that every successive government has refused to use and reapply the proceeds towards any development in the region since 1958.
“If they refuse to heed our advice, it would result to the sinking of two of their mother vessels as examples to others. They should not undertake any repair of the pipeline, oil and gas facilities that is damaged or attacked by our forces during this period of “Operation Red Economy” until and after the dialogue.”
