AREF Mediates in the Niger Delta Crisis.
PRESS RELEASE
Ambassador Segun Olusola, mni, OFR, has called on all parties to the ongoing hostage-crisis in the Niger Delta to exercise the utmost restraint in the interest of national and international peace and stability, even as he referred to the recent worrying intelligence report by the USA’s National Security Adviser to the US Senate, to the effect that the current crisis in the Niger Delta could lead to a civil war and a historically-unprecedented massive outflow of tens of millions of refugees, that would destabilise Africa and Europe, and possibly dislocate the UN’s crisis-management mechanisms!
The Founder/President of the African Refugees Foundation (AREF) empathised with the peoples of the Niger Delta, whilst calling on the youths of the region to eschew violence and embrace dialogue. He fervently appealed to the militants holding the two USA and one UK citizens hostage to show the world that they have good intentions by, first, allowing the hostages to speak on phone “live-and-direct” with their distraught families, just as he strongly advised the Federal government against trying to resolve this stand-off through the use of force.
Ambassador Olusola, whilst averring that his appeal is in furtherance of AREF’s “PROJECT C.O.M.P.A.C.T.” (Corps Of Mediators, Peace-Makers & Promoters of Culture-of-peace Training Programme) called on all stakeholders in the Niger Delta and the Nigerian entity to sheathe swords, and commence immediate and sincere actualisation of the YENAGOA ACCORD resultant from the 10th –11th February 2006 Special Niger Delta Consultative Forum held at Yenagoa, Bayelsa State.
“AREF believes”, Chief Olusola concluded, “that speedy actualisation of the recommendations arrived at during the Special Niger Delta Consultative Forum are achievable, especially since the stakeholders who were party to the YENAGOA ACCORD included very senior representatives of Nigeria’s Federal and Niger Delta states’ governments, five relevant foreign governments (including Britain and the USA), major oil multinationals (Chevron, ENI-NAOC, Shell etc.), national and global development agencies (e.g. NDDC and UNDP), Niger Delta traditional rulers, elders, women and youth activists, and other community leaders.”
The AREF chieftain is currently employing all available diplomatic and other avenues to expedite positive action by both governments and the Niger Delta youths towards holistic solution of the challenges of this volatile region, including the release of the hostages.
Ambassador Segun Olusola, mni, OFR
Founder/Patron, AREF
Monday, March 27, 2006
Ambassador Segun Olusola, mni, OFR, has called on all parties to the ongoing hostage-crisis in the Niger Delta to exercise the utmost restraint in the interest of national and international peace and stability, even as he referred to the recent worrying intelligence report by the USA’s National Security Adviser to the US Senate, to the effect that the current crisis in the Niger Delta could lead to a civil war and a historically-unprecedented massive outflow of tens of millions of refugees, that would destabilise Africa and Europe, and possibly dislocate the UN’s crisis-management mechanisms!
The Founder/President of the African Refugees Foundation (AREF) empathised with the peoples of the Niger Delta, whilst calling on the youths of the region to eschew violence and embrace dialogue. He fervently appealed to the militants holding the two USA and one UK citizens hostage to show the world that they have good intentions by, first, allowing the hostages to speak on phone “live-and-direct” with their distraught families, just as he strongly advised the Federal government against trying to resolve this stand-off through the use of force.
Ambassador Olusola, whilst averring that his appeal is in furtherance of AREF’s “PROJECT C.O.M.P.A.C.T.” (Corps Of Mediators, Peace-Makers & Promoters of Culture-of-peace Training Programme) called on all stakeholders in the Niger Delta and the Nigerian entity to sheathe swords, and commence immediate and sincere actualisation of the YENAGOA ACCORD resultant from the 10th –11th February 2006 Special Niger Delta Consultative Forum held at Yenagoa, Bayelsa State.
“AREF believes”, Chief Olusola concluded, “that speedy actualisation of the recommendations arrived at during the Special Niger Delta Consultative Forum are achievable, especially since the stakeholders who were party to the YENAGOA ACCORD included very senior representatives of Nigeria’s Federal and Niger Delta states’ governments, five relevant foreign governments (including Britain and the USA), major oil multinationals (Chevron, ENI-NAOC, Shell etc.), national and global development agencies (e.g. NDDC and UNDP), Niger Delta traditional rulers, elders, women and youth activists, and other community leaders.”
The AREF chieftain is currently employing all available diplomatic and other avenues to expedite positive action by both governments and the Niger Delta youths towards holistic solution of the challenges of this volatile region, including the release of the hostages.
Ambassador Segun Olusola, mni, OFR
Founder/Patron, AREF
Monday, March 27, 2006
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