Niger-Delta Militants Demand N1Bn Compensation, Issues June 21 As Deadline

The leadership of Niger Liberation Force (NDLF), a militant group in the Niger Delta,  has demanded N1bn from the Federal Government as compensation for what it described as “the extra judicial murder of its leader, General John Togo, aerial bombing and killing of innocent citizens of Ayakoromor community by soldiers of the Joint Task Force.

The NDLF demand is coming on the heels of the alleged Federal Government payment of N100m compensation to the family of the slain leader of the Islamist group, Boko Haram, Mohammed Yusuf who was reportedly killed by the police in custody.

Spokesman for the NDLF, Capt Mark Anthony,  in a statement made available to Sunday Vanguard, said unlike  Boko Haram that went bombing and killing innocent citizens, agitation was for local control of oil revenue arising from decades of years of criminal injustice and balkanization by the Nigerian government and did not go about the streets of  Niger Delta to murder innocent citizens and security operatives.

The group, which flayed the Federal Government decision to compensate the family of the Boko Haram leader who died in police custody, threatened to return to the creeks if government  refused to make compensation through its legal representatives on or before June 21, 2012.