The Niger Liberation Force, NDLF, a militant group in the Niger-Delta,
yesterday, declared the sacked NSA a persona-non-grata in Ijaw communities in
the region, including his country home, Peretoru-gbene in Bayelsa state.
The group, in a statement by its spokesman,
“Captain” Mark Anthony, welcomed the removal of Azazi for incompetence, saying
he was an embarrassment to the Ijaw nation and Niger-Delta.
The group said: “The leadership of Niger
Delta Liberation Force, NDLF, has lauded President Goodluck Jonathan for the
sacking of General Andrew Owoye Azazi(rtd) who was the National Security
Adviser to President Gooodluck Jonathan for incompetence”.
“The NSA was an embarrassment and failure
to Ijaw nation/Niger Delta and to the President’s kitchen cabinet as the man
misled the President with his archaic classroom military tactics that did not
work out in practical combatant operations.
“The sack decision by Mr. President is a
wise decision that came almost too late as he was seen overtly incompetent,
which brought Mr. President and Nigerian government to international ridicule
and embarrassment on security matters.
“NDLF had called for the sack of the
NSA for long since he was found, obviously derailing, which result had put hundreds
of Nigerians into untimely death by the Boko Haram extremists’ activities
through bombing worshipping centers and other public places”.
The militant group went on: “For the
record, the sack of NSA, Andrew Azazi, is unconnected with his publicized accusation
against the PDP -led government of fueling the current insecurity and bombings
in northern parts of the nation. But it was a clear show of incompetence on his
part.
“One could recall that in 2010, when NDLF
had a gun confrontation with the Joint Task Force (JTF) and the JTF lost the
battle, the Nigerian Army, under the watchful eyes and supervision of the
sacked NSA, sent JTF soldiers to test run their newly acquired military planes
and other lethal weapons on an Ijaw town of Ayakoromor on the 1st of December,
2010, thereby causing genocide on harmless and innocent ancient community.
“As God does His things, Boko Haram, from
the North, sprung up by killing innocent Nigerians in hundreds under the
same Azazi’s security supervision, but he failed to deploy the same
military war planes and other lethal weapons to bomb some northern towns to
stem further suicide bombing as he commanded in the case of the Niger -Delta
militancy.
“But, to our surprise, the former NSA
cleverly dodged his responsibility by being afraid of his former generals and
ex-military heads of state from the North by shifting blames carelessly and
raising accusing fingers at the ruling PDP of brewing the insecurity in the
nation.
“How does PDP politics cause suicide
bombing of churches and killing of innocent Nigerians? And that prompted Mr.
President to demand further explanations from the incompetent NSA for his
unguarded outburst”.