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By Amos Odeh, Yenagoa
The national president of the Movement for the Survival of Izon Ethnic Nationality in the Niger Delta, Kennedy Tonjo West, has assured that the group was ready to collaborate with the Joint Task Force code named, Operation Delta Safe, to ensure that all forms of criminalities are stamped out of the Niger Delta region.
Speaking on Wednesday when the group visited the command’s headquarters in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State capital, West said the group appreciates the efforts of the command towards ensuring increment in crude oil production and “deflecting the activities of the sea pirates, as well as curbing all forms of unwholesome acts in the region.”
West, who led the delegation to the command, said, “We are here to collaborate with JTF because of our planned reorientation of the youths of the region. The essence is to re-orientate on the need to uplift our lost values and on vices that have de-marketed our struggle and made investors reluctant to come to the region.
“We are vigorously fighting against it, and we can’t fight against it without coming to the institution whose mandate it is to make sure that this place becomes investment friendly. We are happy that the command has given us the consent to tour the communities to continue to preach against all forms of criminality and every other vice that have continued to make the place uninhabitable for investors.
“Whether we like it or not our Niger Delta region has been de-marketed and nobody wants to go to a place that has security issues and it should be a thing of concern to any Niger Delta person yearning for development. Because when investors come in, it raises the internally generated revenue and creates employment for the teaming youths and engages people constructively.
“We felt that we owe the Niger Delta that responsibility of re-orientating the people to make the place more investment friendly for the region. We will achieve this through community engagement.
“MOSIEND is in all the communities in Niger Delta states and we are going to use this structure to make sure that we propagate this message down to all the communities. Once this is done and the youths’ minds are re- orientated, the Federal Government and state governments will commend the active role of MOSIEND,” he said.
Responding, the commander of Joint task Force, Operation Delta Safe, Rear Admiral Aminu Hassan, said that the command is going to collaborate with MOSIEND to achieve her aim, adding that the command was ready to assist in any way possible to make sure that MOSIEND succeeds.
He stated that the command is available to assist any time there is need for that.
