Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2008 5:03 AM
Subject: The Proposed Niger Delta Peace Summit
April 01, 2008
The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) wishes to disassociate itself from the proposed Niger Delta Peace Summit being planned for the month of April, 2008.
A summit without the basic ingredient of sincerity and the presence of key players such as Henry Okah and others marked for arrest is unacceptable. Okah must be in such a forum as an active participant and not on the agenda for discussion.
Those so-called elders, compromised militants and youth leaders who are clamoring for hand-outs and recognition from Abuja by accepting to attend are doing so for their own selfish interests.
MEND can assure that if the summit does hold, it will be just another circus that will end in failure as key issues will not be addressed and those that will participate do not have the capacity to guarantee an enduring peace.
Jomo Gbomo