Group warns Boko Haram sponsors to stop harassing Jonathan

THE Niger Delta Self-Determination Movement (NDSDM) has warned those it called sponsors of the dreaded terrorist group, Boko Haram, to desist from further harassing President Goodluck Jonathan, his administration and the country. This was as it also warned the insurgent group to stay away from the Niger Delta region, saying it would not tolerate any attack on the lives and property in the region. The group, in a communiqué issued at the end of its one- day forum with the Niger Delta delegates at the ongoing national conference, held in Port Harcourt at the weekend, said it would not take likely any attack on any part of Southern Nigeria, particularly the Niger Delta. NDSDM, in the communique signed by its information and research officers, Livingstone Wechie and Biebele Armie, respectively, said lives and property in the part of the country meant so much to it. “We warn the sponsors and executors of terrorism in the name of Boko Haram and their likes in Nigeria to desist from trying to harass President Goodluck Jonathan, his administration and the rest of Nigeria.” “We shall no longer tolerate same should any part of Southern Nigeria, particularly the Niger Delta region be attacked in any manner as our lives and property means so much to us”, the statement read in part. The group, while restating its firm support for the president,called on other regions to do the same, maintaining the call was in the collective interest of all. Advocating for 100 per cent land and natural resources ownership and regional autonomy, it also expressed solidarity with the Abuja Original inhabitants to insist on justice over the ownership rights of their land. It said it was aware of the presence of untapped mineral resources in the North, alleging that these were deliberately being reserved until the oil and gas currently being explored and exploited were completely exhausted.