Niger Delta Group Moves Against Boko Haram, Sponsors

African Examiner

18 July 2011

Niger Delta Group Moves Against Boko Haram, Sponsors

By Akanimo Sampson

Ugly drums of imminent civil strife in Nigeria echoed from the creeks on

Monday, following threats by the Niger Delta Indigenous Movement for

Radical Change, a seeming left wing group in Nigeria's oil and gas region, to

confront both the sponsors and members of the deadly Boko Haram Sect,

which has claimed responsibility for the spate of bombings in parts of the

country.

The group warned that it would mobilise some unrepentant militants in the

region, to take the current ''terrorist battle'' to Boko Haram and their sponsors

in the northern part of the county, in what observers fear may spark off a civil

strife in the country.

They are however in the mean time,requesting the Northern political and

religious leaders to choose between the continued existence of Nigeria as

one country and the ''extremist Islamic militant group'' Boko Haram.