In an ultimatum issued on Wednesday, via an online platform, the militants said the decision was taken after an emergency meeting of leaders of the various militant groups in the region.
The Niger Delta militants claimed they witnessed how members of the Movement for the Actualisation of Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, and Biafra Independent Movement, BIM, were killed in unprovoked circumstances.
General Playboy said, “So many Niger Delta militants witnessed what happened in Onitsha.
“We are too pained to keep quiet. If the Federal Government fails to release them by Friday, June 3, 2016, they will hear from us from Rivers, Bayelsa, Delta, Akwa Ibom, Cross River and Edo states.”
He said, “It is now war between the militants and security men. Since innocent and helpless citizens, especially from South-South and South East, have been marked out for extinction, we will defend our people. We will go after security men in an unprecedented manner both in sea and on land. Federal Government should expect more attacks from us.
“We’ll tell the Federal Government that the Niger Delta region is our terrain and no amount of military troops and their armoury will dampen our spirit.
“The Federal Government should know that the more attacks on Biafra, the more aggressive we become. This is war that involves all of us.”
It would be recalled that scores of Biafra agitators were allegedly killed on Monday, in some states, during the celebration of the 49th anniversary of Biafra proclamation by the late Dim Chukwuemeka Ojukwu.
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