The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps on Thursday expressed its strong conviction that the current plague of militant actions in the country especially attacks from the Niger Delta Avengers militant group will soon come to an end.
The NSCDC speaking on Thursday in Minna through Abdullahi Muhammadu its Commandant General said: “The Federal Government has commenced negotiations with some of the aggrieved militants in the region on the need to sheath their swords and embrace peaceful resolutions of all perceived grievances that led to the bombings of oil pipelines in the region.
“To the best of my knowledge, I think the Federal Government is already negotiating with them.
“At the last meeting we had, we discussed at length and very soon all these bombings will come to an end.
“The government is trying to negotiate with them with a view to finding out why they are doing it so in order as to get to the root of the problem.’’
Explaining further, the NSCDC commandant said the choice o dialogue by the federal government was in order to pass a democratic message across to the militants.
He said: “You know we are in a democratic setting, so we have to be very careful of what we do.
“After the first bombing, second bombing and the third bombing, we were sent there and we did our job there to find out some things.
“During the period of our assignment, we went on a fact-finding mission and we came back with some facts which I will not disclose to you now. But I am sure it will soon come to an end”.
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