Leader of the Pan-Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF), Chief Edwin Clark, has described continued attack on oil and gas installations in the region as a criminal act and their perpetrators as enemies of the region.
Clark, who spoke yesterday at a press briefing held in his Warri home, also said the PANDEF would meet soon to take a decision on ways to deal with the situation.
He appealed to the Federal Government not to be deterred by the ugly development, urging it to go on with its decision to consider the requests presented to it recently.
The Ijaw national leader, who spoke to journalists in the company of some other stakeholders of the region, noted that a number of factors were responsible for the pattern manifested in the destruction of critical oil and gas assets in the region, pointing out political and pecuniary reasons.
He, however, noted that the continued militant activities in the region, especially the destruction of oil facilities, had gone beyond matters of expression of grievances to a calculated attempt to derail the budding peace process in the region.
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