It also described the Reconciliation, Rehabilitation and Reconstruction, RRR, of the then Head of State, Gen. Yakubu Gowon as ruse deceitfully contrived to deepen the underdevelopment of the Niger Delta region.
The factional movement therefore carpeted leaders and elders of the region for working in concert with the Northern caliphate to further pauperise the people of the region for their own selfish interest.
MASSOB leader, Solomon Oduchukwu, who spoke to newsmen yesterday in Owerri, the Imo State capital through the National Director of Information, Sunday Okereafor, dismissed the Federal Government’s recent promise to clean up Ogoni land and also to reconstruct the devastated Niger Delta region as a wild goose chase.
According to him, it is ridiculous and ironical for President Muhammadu Buhari to now profess his intention to remedy the decay in the devastated oil bearing region amidst the biting recession, adding that in the first instance Ogoni land was not the only place in need of rehabilitation.
“Is Ogoni land, the only land devastated during the civil war? Why are they waking up from their slumber now, 46 years after the war had ended? And why have they failed to implement the “No victor, No vanquished policy” as well as the 3Rs of reconciliation, rehabilitation and reconstruction?” Oduchukwu, who derided leaders of the region for sabotaging their people through their recent visit to Abuja for a 16-point agenda, including the granting of oil blocks, argued that agitation for oil blocks in place of the freedom and fundamental human rights of the people is nothing but a misplacement of priority.
Dismissing the Niger Delta elders as mere paid contractors and willing tools of the Northern caliphate, Oduchukwu who is from the region, urged youths to rise up in defence of their rights and freedom from the suffocating claws of the Northern caliphate.
“The youths should rise up and defend their right because their land is being destroyed and polluted by the global oil giants in collaboration with the Federal Government. Ikwerre, Ogoni and the entire Igbo land are being polluted.
“Therefore, the so called elders who led the delegation to Abuja are nothing but a bundle of self-centred individuals who do not mean well for the Niger Delta
region but are only interested in obtaining oil blocks for themselves because they see the oil in the region as their personal wealth.
“MASSOB is therefore telling the whole world that the elders of South East and South-South are selfish and cannot represent us because they are not our leaders and therefore cannot lead us,” he said.
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