Vanguard
14 Feb 2011
WARRI — FIVE thousand pipeline surveillance job slots intended for former militants to secure oil facilities in Delta State has pitched former militants in the state against one another, even as members of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, MEND, Urhobo chapter, have vowed to make the state ungovernable if the job slots allotted to them were not increased and given to militant leaders of the area for distribution.
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The former militants, led by Augustine Ogedegbe, Collins Arigo, Abraham Vwanghe and Ebi Onoyeta, who staged a peaceful protest to Vanguard, weekend, with placards of varrious inscriptions, said that the Niger Delta struggle was not an Ijaw and Itsekiri affair alone, adding that the 200 surveillance job slots of the alleged 5,000 slots given to the Urhobo group was too little and had been handed over to non-militants to handle, who distributed it to their cronies to the detriment of genuine former militants.
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They insisted that the Federal Government gesture was for all militants irrespective of tribe and wondered why the Urhobo group who also formed a major key at Tompolo’s camp should be unjustly treated in this matter.
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