On Thursday, Buhari’s office said the government was talking to militants via security agencies and oil firms to halt a wave of attacks on oil facilities.
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Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari needs to “stop deceiving” people about any talks with militants in the Niger Delta and get personally involved, the largest ethnic group in the region said on Friday.
The Niger Delta Avengers (NDA), the militant group responsible for recent attacks on oil installations, has denied holding talks with the government.
In June, government officials said a one-month ceasefire had been agreed with the Niger Delta Avengers but the group reiterated on Thursday no talks were going on.
The group added that if the government has actually initiated any peace talk, it means the President is talking with mercenaries set to disturb the genuine struggle of the agitators, adding that the President Buhari-led government is not honest to the Nigerian people and their foreign allies.
If we are to engage in any peace talks we made it clear that the global community must be part of it. They said that the only condition that would bring them to the negotiation table was the involvement of the global community in any talks.
“This can only happen when President Buhari as the political leader of Nigeria comes down to the negotiation table”.
Buhari also told his guest that the Federal Government is studying the instruments of the Amnesty Programme inherited from the previous administration with a view to carrying out commitments made that were undelivered.
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The militants have called for a greater share of Nigeria’s oil wealth – which accounts for around 70 percent of national income – to be passed on to the region’s communities, and for authorities to clean up areas blighted by oil spills.
