Nigerian militants threatened to end their cease-fire not long after it began Wednesday because they claimed the government was threatening one of their camps.
The militant group MEND said seven military joint task force gun boats with heavily armed troops were headed toward a camp near the border of the coastal states of Delta and Ondo.
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“If this information from a very reliable source within the JTF happens to be true, the cease-fire will be called off with immediate effect,” the group’s spokesman, Jomo Gbomo, said in a statement.
One would hope that government forces are standing down, not killing a needed cease fire.
There was no immediate response from the military to the threat to end the cease-fire.
Si the military against the cease fire, and against the Government’s legal actions.
The cease-fire put on hold MEND’s “all-out war” on the government. The group is demanding a fairer distribution of oil wealth in the Niger Delta. It wants oil revenue reinvested in the region, instead of enriching those whom the militants consider corrupt politicians.
The militants have claimed attacks in recent years on oil platforms, chemical tankers, and oil pipelines. They have also kidnapped oil company workers. The repeated attacks have disrupted oil companies’ operations in Nigeria, severely disrupting production and causing prices to climb.
The oil subject needs deeper coverage!!
It is the use of oil profits that started this war and more coverage of this specific (oil) subject needs coverage on the big picture