N'Delta Avengers Attacks MEND, Oshiomhole, Silva; Says MEND Are Robbers, Kidnappers, Pirates

The Niger Delta Avengers, the militant group specialises in bombing the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation facilities in the region has launched a verbal attack on a co-militant group, the Movement For Emancipation of Niger Delta, MEND, describing the co-militants as criminals, kidnappers, sea piracy, bank robbers among others.

The NDA in a publication published on its website by it spokesman,  Brig.Gen Mudoch Agbinibo condemned the MEND group over what it describes as "misplaced threat emanating from disbanded criminal elements" The group also accused Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State and Timipre Silva of sponsoring the MEND group in an effort to launder the  group which had engaged in various criminal activities in the name of struggle for the Niger Delta People.

The statement read;

"We appeal to the general public and all sane minds on the activities of Niger Delta Avengers (NDA) to disregards all purported statements and misplaced threat emanating from disbanded criminal elements like the so-called MEND (Movement For the Emancipation of The Niger Delta) that are political sidekicks and desperations from Gov. Adams Oshiomhole of Edo state, Mr. Timipre Silva and their political paymasters to hold their political party to the jugular of the affairs of the Niger Delta Region."

"That our struggle is focused on the liberation of the People of Niger Delta from decades of divisive rule and exclusion."

"We are watching keenly their regretful efforts at rebranding and regrouping criminal elements in the region for their short political gains and territories."

"The NDA is unperturbed, we have mandate that is clearly a departure of those old tactics of the defunct so-called MEND that was indulged in kidnapping, hostage taking, Sea piracy, illegal oil bunkering, bank robberies and social crimes, the likes of  Boyloafs, Ateke Toms, were associated to in their days in the name struggle. The wind of change in the Niger Delta struggle has come, we are young, smart, and focused Niger deltans." 

"Our mandate is to liberate the Niger Delta people; we don’t run after pipeline contracts."

"God bless the Niger Delta People."