Avengers split as faction threatens to expose sponsors, members

A group, Reformed Niger Delta Avengers, RNDA, claiming to be a breakaway faction of the Niger Delta Avengers, NDA, has emerged.

Backed out of the continued attacks on pipelines by the principal organization,the new group is said to now  threatening to expose the identities of NDA fighters and their sponsors if the militant group do not cease hostilities. 

The new group in a statement by Cynthia Whyte, last night, said: “Permit us to begin by introducing the Reformed Niger Delta Avengers (RNDA), a breakaway faction of the Niger Delta Avengers.”

According to Saturday Vanguard, a  source told which preferred anonymity, hinted: “I don’t think it is true, the Niger Delta Avengers we know cannot chicken out of the struggle, I think some people have been paid to cause confusion and derail their struggle.”

RNDA, however, said: “A majority of us in consideration of the recent personal appeal by His Excellency, former President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, the peace efforts and initiative of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) and the feeling of guilt over the damage being affected on our environment.