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Monday 11 June 2012

Compensate us with 1billion naira now or face the music- Militants tell Jonathan

The Niger Delta Liberation Force (NDLF), a popular militant group in the south have requested for the sum of N1bn from the Federal in compensation for the extra judicial killing of John Togo who happened to be the leader of the group before the Joint task force killed him and several other citizens of Ayakoromor community who suffered from serious military raid. This development is coming at the time the Federal government redeemed it’s pledge to the family of the late Boko Haram leader, Mohammed Yusuf who was said to have been killed by the Nigerian police while in custody. The federal governemnt has since yusuf’s death redeemed its pledge of 100 million naira to the
family. Capt. Mark Anthony, the group’s spokesman in a statement presented to daily post affirmed that the group were never interested in the killing of innocent Nigerians on the streets like it has been carried out presently by the Boko Haram sect, yet their leader was compensated with 100 million naira. Enraged at the Federal Government’s decision to compensate the Late Boko Haram’s leader, the group had given the federal government till 21st June to compensate it for the extra judicial killing of its leader and other members of the group as well as the raid of some villages in the Niger Delta. The statement reads in part, “The leadership of the NDLF has consultedand authorized our legal team to demand from the Federal Government, on behalf of our organization, to pay NDLF and the family compensation of N1bn, for the extra-judicial murder of our commander and leader of NDLF, General John Togo, his soldiers and bombing and killing of innocent citizens in Ayakoromor by soldiers of Joint Task Force (JTF) through both aerial bombing and mini warship attacks in 2010/2011. ”Our organization rose from its slumber suddenly when the government of Nigerian paid similar compensation of N100m to the Islamist Boko Haram leader’s family for extra-judicial murder of Mohammed Yusuf by the police”. ”NDLF’s objective was clear as our agitation was for local control of oil revenue arising from decades of years of criminal injustice and balkanization by the Nigerian government. ”NDLF, as part of our scope of operations, did not go about the streets of Niger Delta to murder innocent citizens and security operatives unlike our counterparts, Boko Haram, who went bombing and killing innocent citizens, including church worshippers, security formations, UN building and other major strategic targets that had caused pains to hundreds of families. Yet, the Federal Government of Nigeria decided to beg them by paying N100m to the slain Boko Haram leader Mohammed Yusuf and others by the police. ”We, therefore, consider this as a slap on our face and urge the Federal Government to make immediate compensation through our legal team before or not later than 21 June, 2012, or else, NDLF will be forced to go back to the creeks for action. The leadership has directed all NDLF soldiers and intending recruits to get ready for action, if the government ignores our demand.”

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