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| Nigeria: Govt In Secret Talks With Niger Delta Militants Despite Failure to Formally Name Negotiating Team |
| 2016-12-13 |
| [All Africa] Despite its reluctance to officially set up a negotiating committee to hold talks with snuffies in the Niger Delta, the federal government has continued discreet talks with the belligerent groups in the region, THISDAY learnt yesterday. But don't tell nobody 'cuz it's a secret. It was gathered that at least three meetings had taken place in the last few months between the snuffies and federal government emissaries coordinated by the National Security Adviser (NSA), Major General Mohammed Moguno (rtd). The backroom discussions, which have incorporated other smaller aggrieved groups, are continuing, it was learnt, just as there is growing anxiety among elders and leaders in the region over the inability of the government at the centre to formally name its team of negotiators about six weeks after their meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari. |
| Posted by:Fred |