MEND Threaten Federal Government Of Nigeria To Release Henry Okah And Others Before Dialogue With Boko Haram

                                          

The Movement for the Emancipation of Niger Delta (MEND) has released a press statement threatning the Ffederal Government of Nigeria not to dialogue with Boko Haram sect without releasing its leader Henry Okah and other MEND fighters who are in different detentions around the world. The group also threatened to attack both oil and non-oil installations in the country with its technical abilitis, if the government should go ahead with the sect before meeting its own conditions. In a statement released by the group which reads;
“The high command of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta wishes to inform the Federal
 Government and all security agencies in Nigeria that if these conditions given by boko haram are granted without the release of our dear leader (Henry Okah) and other members of our movement, there will be serious consequences which with our latest technological know-how, will affect the entire country including the oil and non-oil sectors respectively”

The group also gave a list of demans to be met by the Federal Government before the proposed dialogue with Boko Haram can be allowed to take place, which are;

• Stop further prosecution of our leader (Henry Okah)
• Release all members of the movement held in various detention centers in Nigeria
• Compensate families of our members killed by the Government security agencies.
• Withdraw all military personnel and tanks in the region
• Handing over resource control to the region.

MEND in the statement further regretted the inability of the federal government to live up to its responsibility of protecting the lives and property of inhabitants of the Niger Delta region and its failure to hand over the control of the resources in the oil rich region since independence.

“It is regrettable that for the past 52 years of independence, the Federal Government has failed in it’s responsibilities to protect the lives and properties of the Niger Deltans and most importantly, handing over the control of our resources to the region rather the Federal Government finds it appropriate to use the money generated from our resources in developing other regions which we no longer can take” the statement concluded.