belonging to National Assembly members from the oil-rich region.
The militants issued the threat while faulting the cut down of funds
allocated to key infrastructural projects for the region in the 2018
budget.
In a meeting held at Egbema, Delta State, the aggrieved militants
declared National Assembly members as "enemies of the region" for
irresponsibly consenting to the reduction of funds allocated for
infrastructural projects in the current budget.
A statement by the leader of Reformed Niger Delta Avengers, RNDA,
self-styled 'General' Johnmark Ezonebi, branded lawmakers from the
region as "ineptitude, foolishness, non-committed approach and
dumbness."
The statement reads, "The RNDA has declared all National Assembly
members from the Niger Delta region as the true enemies of the
development of the region and would deal decisively with them while
their property scattered across the Niger Delta region will receive a
dose of our ravaging dynamites.
"We note that the National Assembly members have not been able to
attract projects but would sit down and fold their hands in the Green
and Red chambers and superintend over reduction of funding for key
projects attracted to the development of the long-neglected region by
others.
"It is shameful and abysmal failure on the part of our legislators in
the National Assembly to sit down and endorse this injustice done to
the people of the region when the President had already allocated
funds for such projects with direct positive impact on the people.
"It is totally unacceptable in this era as it will no longer be
condoned for our elected representatives to pursue their personal
interest to the detriment of the region's development as was clearly
displayed by former President Goodluck Jonathan in his epileptic six
years reign while under his blind watch, allowed some of his ministers
and cohorts to milk the wealth of the region dry without contributing
any single project to the region.
"We were totally taken aback over the reduction of funds allocated to
the Nigerian Maritime University, Okerenko. This was one project that
we sacrificed our lives in the creek to fight for, the second Niger
bridge, the East- West road that cuts across all the Niger Delta
states, which former President Jonathan and his PDP government could
not complete, among other critical projects by the National Assembly."
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