An ageement has been reached between Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta,MEND, and the Federal Government to release former militant leader, Henry Okah, in prison in South Africa and Charles Okah, incarcerated in Nigeria.
They also agreed that ex-militant leader, Government Ekpemupolo, alias Tompolo, will not be harassed, while leader of People of Biafra,IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, will be released on condition that he renounces the agitation for “Biafra Republic.”
MEND Spokesperson, Jomo Gbomo, who made this known announced other breakthroughs in the discussions that would end the revolt in the South-South and South East regions in a jiffy.
However, it said the recalcitrant Niger Delta Avengers, NDA, still has opportunity to embrace peace failing which a combination of military forces and volunteers in the region, would smoke them out.
However, one of the most immediate and urgent fallout of the ongoing dialogue is the imperative for the Federal Government and MEND to jointly and separately take proactive steps to rescue and secure the region.
This is in the event that the recalcitrant Niger Delta Avengers (NDA) continuing on its senseless and politically-motivated path of attacks on the country’s oil assets,” it noted.
MEND asserted: “To this end, both parties agreed that the Special Forces of the Nigerian Army should commence the purely routine but strategic military exercise code-named “Operation Crocodile Tears”; while MEND would commence a meet-the Government-Actors-and-People tour of the Niger Delta region code-named “Operation Moses”.
