Mr Endurance Amagbein, a former Niger Delta agitator, has called on President Bola Tinubu to review pipeline surveillance contracts in the region.
Amagbein, who refers to himself as “General,” made the appeal on Wednesday in a statement issued in Abuja by his media assistant, Mr Mightywind Dudafa.
“I want President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to review the surveillance regime in the Niger Delta so that one person from one kingdom does not control pipelines in another kingdom,” he said.
“Also, I want the Federal Government to investigate the complaints of non-payment of salaries while I worked under Tantita Security Services.”
He stated that “President Tinubu is not the problem of the people of Niger Delta.”
The ex-militant blamed issues in the region on “selfish and greedy surveillance contractors who have sabotaged the system by deviating from the President’s efforts at peace in the Niger Delta.”
According to him, the Federal Government should re-evaluate its approach to “gunboat oil politics” and promote indigenous involvement in oil and gas surveillance for lasting peace.
“I want to reiterate that my support to the Tinubu-led administration remains steadfast, and I want to urge all my supporters and people across the Ijaw struggle platform to queue behind the present administration,” he added.
Amagbein said the purpose of military-civilian relations globally is to create a safe and progressive society marked by peace, political stability, development and economic growth—free from insurgency, oppression and suppression.
However, he described the situation in the Niger Delta as disheartening.
“There have been so much tensions in the region because, rather than giving useful information to the military for the purpose of peace and progress, some persons in Ijaw nation have decided to betray the trust the armed forces reposed in them,” he said.
“They are deliberately giving false information to the military for selfish reasons – to help them neutralise their political enemies and those who dare to oppose their continued oppression,” he alleged.
(NAN)