Air Force Boss Says Military May Turn its Arsenal against Niger Delta Youths
Badeh
LAGOS JUNE 21ST (URHOBOTODAY)-Chief of Defence Staff, Air Chief Marshall Alex Badeh on Friday revealed that intelligence reports available to the Armed Forces showed that the Youths from the Niger Delta region have started taking up arms and engaging in criminal activities along the creeks and the water ways of the region.
Badeh said though the Nigerian Armed Forces entered into an agreement with the Niger Delta youths and former militants to disarm and partner with the Federal Government on empowerment and development initiatives,the recent cases of criminality may force the military to review such agreement and turn its arsenal on the region.
Air Mashal Alex Badeh, who made the revelation during the inauguration ceremony of the permanent complex of the Headquarters of the Joint Task Military Force, Operation Pulo Shield, along Igbogene/ Okolobiri road in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, said the increase in illegal arms and ammunition possession by youths of the Region has led to an increase in cases of oil theft, kidnapping and other criminal activities in the region.
According to Badeh, “Criminalities in the Niger Delta, we thought, have stopped but now they are on the rise again. But I know that our gallant men and women are equal to the task. We are after the bad men, we are good men and darkness can never overtake light. No nation can develop in the presence of so much criminality.”
Whenyou say youths, ur refering to all youths in Niger delta, including those that are not militants. So I tink the statement should be Niger delta militants nt Niger delta youths. Because not all youths are militants.
U are a coward for saying that when u can not fight boko haram u think u can fight the niger delta
We have ways of destruction we don’t kill our fellow Nigeria we know what to do that will cause a downfall of Nigeria already falling economy,we will see and we are ever ready,or u think amnesty is the solution,niger delta need their own republic that is what we are targeting,we will involve the international community,we are waiting for a very good time to strike.
The niger delta is not only waiting for ur arsenal but also waiting for ur bacelona,people think is only the police that are corrupt but u as well ,niger delta need their own republic.
SO BOKO HARAM IS DEATH NOW NIGER DELTA YOUTH THIS REVENGE BY BOKO HARAM LEADER MUHAMADU BUHARI WE ARE WATCHING. IS GOOD TO DIVIDE THE COUNTRY BEFORE IT WILL GET OUT OF HAND HAUSA & YORUBA AGAINST BIAFRANS
Care must be taken that innocent Delta youth are not slaughtered as one of the contributors pointed out earlier that not all the youth in the Delta State are militants. Ensure that you look for solutions that are civil and pragmatic. Those that would yield the desired results and not senseless actions that would only destroy life and property.