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From Godwin Tsa, Abuja
Former Niger Delta freedom fighter, Mr. Endurance Amagbein, has denied reports linking him with a plan to attack soldiers in Igbomotoru community of Bayelsa State on New Year day.
The self-styled General Amagbein was reacting to a Facebook post on Tuesday, December 30 by one Tare Lemon, who accused him of planning to attack soldiers in Igbomotoru on New Year day.
A group identified as Concerned Stakeholders for Peace and Public Safety, Bayelsa State, had alleged that credible information at its disposal suggested that Amagbein had plans in place that may pose threats to military personnel and destabilise security within Igbomotoru Community in Southern Ijaw during the New Year.
In a statement in Abuja, he described the allegations as untrue.
He said those who derive joy in framing him for crimes he did not commit will soon run out of luck and will answer for the pains they have caused him and other innocent people in the region.
He accused some of the pipeline surveillance contractors of being behind the allegations.
Amagbein, fondly called Adaka Boro the Second, alleged that these contractors were doing this to gain traction in the region with a view to silencing him and keep him out of circulation.
“For the record, Igbomotoru is very peaceful and all stakeholders are working together for the growth and development of the community.”
Amagbein said he has played a significant role in sustaining the peace and security in Igbomotoru Community and its environs. “Therefore, there’s no need for violence or crisis in the area.”
Amagbein said whoever was behind the senseless physical, verbal and emotional attacks targeted at him to make the Federal Government hunt him down for what he knows nothing about should expect nemesis to catch up with them one day.
“The same people whom I worked for as a subcontractor securing over 1,000 pipelines for them, instead of paying me for the services I rendered, they turned against me and started framing me for things I knew nothing about.
“I want them to know that my life is in the hands of God, and my fellow human being cannot take it away from me. So they should stop this act against me.
“I have paid my dues and you cannot talk of peace in the Niger Delta without mentioning Amagbein.
“I am not hiding under the shadow of anybody, and anybody expecting me to bow down to worship them before I can survive or have peace is joking.
“They go about committing atrocities in the Niger Delta and they nail it on me.
“They have taken the pipeline surveillance contracts, and as if that is not enough, they are out in full force to take away my peace, and because they are evil, they look for innocent people whose lives they will destroy, but they will not see me,” Amagbein alleged.
“I want to use this medium to clear the air that I have no quarrel or issue with the Nigerian Armed Forces or any military personnel doing their work in Igbomotoru or any community in the Niger Delta.
“Besides, I have no problem with the Federal Government or the Bayelsa State Government, nor do I have any crisis with any Bayelsan to warrant me to attack anybody.
“I’m just like every other law-abiding citizen of Nigeria and of course, nobody can even fight against the government and win, so, that news is fake and it is being circulated by pipeline surveillance contractors who have been looking for every means to silence me.
“And so I want the general public to disregard the information in circulation because there’s no truth in it. Amagbein is not planning to attack anybody.”
He, therefore, advised all security personnel in Igbomotoru and elsewhere to be alert and stay safe against any attack from any quarter.
