Militancy only feeds few elements in N’Delta – Netherland activist
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Thu, 16 Jun 2016 || Nigeria,
A prominent Netherland based environmental rights activist, Mr Sunny Ofehe, on Thursday, said there was no time militancy benefited or better the lots of the oil-rich Niger Delta people, saying that only a few elements use such means to enrich themselves at the detriment of the entire region.
Ofehe, in a statement mailed to our correspondent(CEOAfrica) from his base, noted that the renewed militancy in the region was unnecessary as the resultant effect through environmental degradation would hurt even unborn children.The activist, who was kidnapped along five other Dutch nationals including this reporter in 2013 along Dodo Rivers in Ekeremor Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, posited that dialogue was the only means to bring lasting peace and development to the region.
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