Former Senate leader profers solution to Niger Delta crisis

Former Senate Leader, Victor Ndoma-Egba

– The Niger Delta Avengers have been a major problem in the country since their emergence

– According to report, N2.6 billion in revenue has been lost due to militant attacks in Delta state

– Former Senate Leader, Victor Ndoma-Egba has given proffered solutions to end the crisis in the Niger Delta.

Former Senate Leader, Victor Ndoma-Egba has advised the federal government to continue to engage members of the Niger Delta Avengers on the need to ensure peace in the oil rich region.

He said this at a reception organised by the Akwa-Cross Association in the Public Service in Abuja.

He said there is the need for engagement and dialogue as there grievances that may arise will need to be addressed for peace to reign.

He reiterated the need to review the amnesty programme to see what has not constituted properly in order to yield positive results.

“There is the need for engagement and dialogue. There will be grievances but we need to talk it over in the atmosphere of peace.

“There is the need to review the amnesty programme to see what we were not doing properly.

“Whatever that is due to them in the Niger Delta should be given to them, whatever had been started should be seen to completion,” he said.

However, he spoke on the lopsided appointments of President Muhammadu Buhari saying that the country should try to work with this present administration.

“President has given assurance that every part of the country would be taken into consideration in making the appointment. So we hold him to his words,” he said.

However, President Muhammadu Buhari has been taking steps to tackle the renewed terrorists in Niger Delta Avengers.

It was reported that he was studying the gazette signed by late President Umaru Yar’Adua on the Niger Delta crisis as one of the possible ways of resolving the growing menace of the Niger Delta Avengers.

The main aim of revisiting the gazette is to ensure that all the agreements contained in the document were implemented by the federal government.

The militants have been urged to desist from attacking oil facilities but all pleas have fallen on deaf ears. They have continued to blow up oil facilities in the Niger Delta region.

According to report, N2.6 billion in revenue has been lost due to militant attacks in Delta state.