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NDDC: Militant groups join forces with Tompolo, IYC
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By Emma Amaize, Samuel Oyadongha, Adesina Wahab & Davies Iheamnachor
MILITANT groups in the nine states of Niger Delta have teamed up with the General Officer Commanding, GOC, Niger-Delta Struggle, Government Ekpemupolo, alias Tompolo, and protesting Ijaw Youths Council, IYC, threatening to shut down major oil flow stations, wells and crude delivery lines of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, in the region over President Muhammadu Buhari’s refusal to instruct Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Godswill Akpabio, to inaugurate the substantive Board of Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC.
The militants under the auspices of Supreme Egbesu Freedom Fighters in a statement by the Commanding Officer, self-styled “General” Agadagba Obus, alias Thunder, warned: “If the Federal Government refuses to inaugurate the NDDC board within the seven-day ultimatum already declared by Tompolo, then we will have
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The militant groups also declared their readiness to form an alliance with the umbrella body of Ijaw Youths Council (IYC), while threatening to shut down major oil exploration flow stations and oil wells in the area.