Following activities of the Niger Delta Militants(NDA) which has led to the continuous bombing of pipelines, President Mohammadu Buhari, on Friday, pleaded with the militants in God’s name to have mercy on the country and soft pedal on the destruction of oil and gas installations in the region. The president also said that many factions of the Niger Delta Militants were armed with sophisticated weapons. Owing to this bombing of these pipelines, President Buhari said that the economy was on its knees.
The president made this known while breaking fast with leaders and chieftains of his political party, the All Progressives Congress (APC) at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. In his words,Buhari said: “I honestly don’t know how many factions of the militants there are in the Niger Delta compared to the north east where you have only the Boko Haram “The technology being deployed by the militants to destroy oil installations is high tech, the way they can go on high sea and international waters and target oil installations is a national problem.
“It is affecting development. No insurance company will want to insure installations that will end up being blown up and no banks will want to finance such installations. Those of you who have friends among the leadership or even the militants themselves should plead with them in the name of God Almighty to take it easy. We need to stablise to create employment, we need to stabilise the economy, I agonise over these things. We are in a very difficult time, so we have to organise ourselves. Anybody that says he has any other country than Nigeria should go out and see.”
