Uranta-2 Dialogue with pro Biafra agitators, group urges FG

By NDUBUISI ORJI

The United Niger Delta Energy Development Security Strategy (UNDEDSS), has urged the Federal Government to dialogue with the members of Indigenous People of Biafra( IPOB) and other pro-Biafra agitators.
The group made the call in a statement issued by its Executive Secretary,Mr Tony Uranta.
According to UNDEDSS, “the federal government should, without further delay, open channels of communication with the dissenters in the South-East of the nation who, so far, are merely peacefully exercising their freedoms to associate, to speak and to aspire towards non-violent self-determination, such as we’ve seen happening, even this year, in Britain and Canada, without causing any untoward reactions.”

The group also called the government to check the excesses of Fulani herdsmen, noting that “the federal government must come out to reassure Nigerians and the world that it does not intend to condone the atrocities of cattle herdsmen or rustlers anywhere in Nigeria, that it will uphold the right to life of every Nigerian, that it will cease to subject citizens perceived as not being in its good books to unfair trial-by-media before arraigning and prosecuting said citizens, if they have cases to answer, and that it will be less determined to have its way, even if that way is not congruent with the electorate leanings.”
“The federal government should ensure that nobody, henceforth, puts it in bad light by using haughty, foul or intemperate language when communicating, on the FGN’s behalf, with the Nigerian citizenry or the world at large.
“The federal government should, henceforth, exhibit a more sensitive and equity-driven awareness of the fact that Nigeria is not any one man’s (or group of men’s) fiefdom, and that this nation is an agglomeration of diversities (including gender, faith, credo, ethnic etc.) and nobody should behave in any way to suggest that any one diversity is superior to the other.”

While restating its firm believe in a united Nigeria premised on justice, equity and rule of law, the group called on the government to begin the implementation of 2014 National Conference as the country is dire need of restructuring.