Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State has said that militants in the Niger Delta criminalised the struggle for the development of the region.
Amaechi faulted the mode of operation of those who paraded themselves as Niger Delta militants, but commit atrocities against their brothers.
The governor who spoke in Port Harcourt on Thursday while declaring open the first Andoni-Opobo-Nkoro Economic Zone Development Summit.
He expressed worry that the so-called militants could kidnap a three-year-old child in the name of the struggle for the development of the region.
He also recalled that militants had once kidnapped a 97-year-old man and demanded ransom, describing the act as a crime that had nothing to do with the Niger Delta struggle.
Represented by the state Deputy Governor, Mr. Tele Ikuru, the governor queried the rationale behind kidnapping in the region, insisting it was wrong for anybody to link the agitation for a better life in the region to abduction of innocent human beings.
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