The defunct Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, MEND, on Sunday employed harsh words to condemn the administration of former President, Goodluck Jonathan.

According to a statement by MEND's spokesman, Jomo Gbomo, Jonathan ran the country aground and “pauperized the Nigerian people to the alarming degree we all experience today.”

“After a rigorous and robust analysis, debate and review of political events in Nigeria within the past 12 months; particularly as they affect the Niger Delta region, the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) has resolved to continue to respect the unilateral ceasefire of hostilities declared May 30, 2014 against key economic interests of the Nigerian State," the statement said in part.

“The painful but necessary resolution to respect the ceasefire was borne out of MEND’s belief that as President Muhammadu Buhari marks his first year in office, he deserves more time to stabilize the country that was ran aground by the ill-fated, corrupt and visionless immediate past administration of former President Goodluck Jonathan which pauperized the Nigerian people to the alarming degree we all experience today.

It also condemned and dissociated itself from the recent activities carried out by a group known as the “Niger Delta Avengers.


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