A coalition of nine renegade militant groups under the aegis of the Reformed Niger Delta Avengers (RNDA), have declared support for the ongoing protest against police brutality and bad governance, vowing to bomb major oil installations in Nigeria and confront the Nigerian Army.
The RNDA, made its position known intatement released to journalists on Monday, explaining that the decision to support the protesting youths was based on the open inequality in the distribution of wealth and development in the country.
The militant groups from the nine states of the Niger Delta region, also announced that they are ready to withdraw from the ceasefire pact with the federal government, engage the troops attached to the proposed operation crocodile smile and resume attacks on some identified oil facilities in the region if issues of poor welfare, armed oppression and inequality in the standard of living between the citizens and political elites are not addressed.
“We, the agitating militant groups in the creeks are lending our voice to the demands of our great resilience Nigerian youths based on the fact that Nigeria is a blessed nation full of abundance of so much untapped natural resources, wherefore we demand for a better Nigeria that the welfare of the citizens should be serious taken into account,” the group said.