Niger Delta Summit: MEND Criticizes Avengers, Pan-Niger Delta Group

The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) on Sunday dissociated itself from what it called the “holier-than-thou and arrogant” attitude of the Pan-Niger Delta Group over the proposed Niger Delta Summit being convened by the federal government.

The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) on Sunday dissociated itself from what it called the “holier-than-thou and arrogant” attitude of the Pan-Niger Delta Group over the proposed Niger Delta Summit being convened by the federal government.

In a statement, it also condemned in very strong terms “the unstable, destructive and immature” behavior of the Niger Delta Avengers who, it says, resume hostilities at the slightest lame excuse.
“We believe that the right approach would have been to attend this Summit as a precursor to future intensive interactions and dialogue with the government,” the statement said, adding that a boycott at this stage is rather hasty.
It said that considering that the current government has been open to the subject of dialogue with a people whose majority sold their birth rights for monthly stipends under a fraudulent amnesty program, whose elders, traditional rulers, tribal assemblies, political class, activists and clergy turned a blind eye and kept