The Ex-Niger Delta Ex-Agitators Forum has written an open letter to President Muhammadu Buhari asking the Nigerian leader to ignore some groups “hell-bent on tarnishing the image” of Babagana Monguno, national security adviser, over the Niger Delta amnesty programme.
In an open letter to the president, the forum said groups bearing the names: Concerned Niger Delta for Sustainable Development and the Niger Deltans for Accountability and Good Governance are unknown to genuine ex-Niger Delta agitators.
The groups had accused Monguno of some financial infractions linked to the amnesty programme but in the letter, the ex-agitators asked the president to disregard the groups.
”They are rather desperate individuals who are being sponsored by dubious politicians and fraudulent contractors who are bent on dragging the name of the National Security Adviser into imaginary allegations of fraud in order to rub mud on the image of your administration,” the letter read.
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”All the issues they are peddling are a bunch of falsehood which contain no iota of truth. This is obvious because rather than bringing up verifiable evidence to substantiate their wild claims, they have resorted to proxy media war even from cloned sites.
”For instance, since the suspension of the Coordinator Prof. Charles Dokubo from office, he has always submitted himself to answer any questions and has never intervened in the work of the investigative committee. We are hopeful that those who did not commit any crimes will not be indicted because faceless groups said so but will be cleared of any wrongdoing in line with the laws of the land.
”In addition, the looting of the Amnesty storage facility in Kaiama has been exhaustively investigated by the security agencies and the report did not in any way indict neither the National Security Adviser nor the Amnesty Coordinator. Yet these hirelings continue to try in futility to drag their names into it in other to discredit them.
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”Although we believe that it is within the right of every qualified Niger Deltan to aspire to be appointed as the Coordinator of the Presidential Amnesty Program, however, we take strong objection to their only style of attempting to discredit the NSA, Gen Monguno. The dimension of calling the attention of the International Community to their fiction is an embarrassing development which we urge you to quickly investigate.
”For the avoidance of doubt, we wish to make it categorically clear that these individuals are not part of us and do not have the mandate of the ex-agitators in their current campaign of calumny against the government. All the threats they make to go back to the creeks do not have the backing of the militant leaders and so will be resisted. For the umpteenth time, we state it here that we are fully in support of the Federal Government under your able leadership.”
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