Shell is paying Nigerian security forces tens of millions of dollars a year to guard their installations and staff in the Niger delta, according to leaked internal financial data seen by the Guardian. The oil giant also maintains a 1,200-strong internal police force in Nigeria, plus a network of plainclothes informants.
According to the data, the world's largest company by revenue spent nearly $1bn on worldwide security between 2007-09.
The documents show that nearly 40% of Shell's total security expenditure over the three year period – $383m (£244m) – was spent on protecting its staff and installations in Nigeria's volatile Niger delta region. In 2009, $65m was spent on Nigerian government forces and $75m on "other" security costs – believed to be a mixture of private security firms and payments to individuals.

Okija_juju: Where are the SOUTH AFRICAN POLICE when you need them?!

This is the one situation where reckless killing is allowed under the constitution..

These guys are criminals.. They have openly admitted to being criminals.. And are now trying to twist the Law to conform to them..

SHOOT THEM ALL!!

Leave none alive...

Carry gun go shoot them na as u b cowboy.

Where were they when the FG first did the amnesty programme and asked them to come forward,were they not in their creeks then,they are all criminals,they should be tagged the JOBLESS AND LAZY YOUTHS OF THE SOUTH-SOUTH WHO HAVE REFUSED TO HELP THEMSELVES.let them stay there,the serious ones among their brothers are moving ahead developing their lives,they are there looking for free money.

I thought FG sent these guys overseas, as part of the Amnesty programme, to learn some craft. I met some dudes in Malaysia learning car mechanics. They often complained about their head coordinator not paying the stipulated $300 monthly allowance.

Now these guys get more benefit than the average joe on the Nigerian street, but still they ain't grateful.

Tompolo was awarded a contract to supply vessels for Nigerian coast guard worth millions of dollars. If Tompolo and all other militants get rewarded for being a bunch of annoying prunes, what do y'all expect from Boko?

I urge the fed. govt. to summon the terrorist for a meeting in the name of amnesty and let everyone of them be executed for the numerous christians they have sent to their untimely grave he who kill by the sword should die by the sword.
Terrorist should not be dialogued with for God sake.

PROTEST BY ALLEGED EX-NIGER DELTA AGITATORS
August 22, 2012 PRESS STATEMENT

On Wednesday, August 22, 2012, a group of youths claiming to be from the Niger Delta were said to have staged a protest in Abuja and demanded for inclusion in the Federal Government amnesty programme for former Niger Delta agitators.

The Amnesty Office understands that this is part of an ongoing agitation for inclusion in a purported Third Phase of the amnesty programme, which has now been hijacked by impostors claiming to be former agitators in the Niger Delta.

For the umpteenth time and for the avoidance of doubt, the Amnesty Office wishes to state that its records show that only 26,358 amnesty beneficiaries have been demobilized and documented in Phase One and Phase Two of the amnesty programme.

We therefore consider as impostors those claiming to belong to a Third Phase of the amnesty programme and have recently staged protests in Benin City, Edo State; Warri in Delta State and yesterday in Abuja, the federal capital territory.

We challenge those claiming to be Third Phase beneficiaries to come forward to state their camps or who their leaders are.

It is important to reiterate that the Amnesty Office does not yet run a Third Phase of the amnesty programme, as neither the office nor its Chairman/Special Adviser to the President on Niger Delta, Hon. Kingsley Kuku, has received such directive from the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, who has the sole authority to make such declaration.

The Amnesty Office considers such protests as a security matter and commends the security agencies for their prompt response in ensuring the restoration of peace, law and order either in Abuja or in the Niger Delta.


Daniel Alabrah
Head, Media and Communications
Presidential Amnesty Office
Abuja

Billyonaire: The title of the thread should be; Jobless Niger-Delta Youths storm Abuja asking for government assistance.

That would have been when this section was moderated by people, rather than the self acclaimed ethnic and religious bigots we have now. Sorry Aisha2 was boko haram wasn't she?

Protesting Niger Delta ‘ex-militants’ are imposters –Amnesty Office

Written by Sunday Williams Thursday, 23 August 2012 05:00

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Youth from the Niger Delta that protested non-inclusion in the presidential amnesty programme for ex-militants yesterday in Abuja were imposters, the Presidential Amnesty office has said.

The ex-militants stormed the Federal Secretariat in Abuja yesterday morning to press for inclusion in the Amnesty programme.

The protesting youth were dispersed by the police but later regrouped at the nearby Bayelsa House where they officials of the amnesty office to address them.

In a reaction to the protest through a statement, Head of Media and Communications at the Presidential Amnesty Office, Daniel Alabrah, said that the protest is part of an ongoing agitation for inclusion in a purported third phase of the amnesty programme, which has now been hijacked by impostors claiming to be former agitators in the Niger Delta.

“For the umpteenth time and for the avoidance of doubt, the Amnesty Office wishes to state that its records show that only 26,358 amnesty beneficiaries have been demobilized and documented in Phase one and phase two of the amnesty programme.

“We therefore consider as impostors those claiming to belong to a third phase of the amnesty programme and have recently staged protests in Benin City, Edo State; Warri in Delta State and yesterday in Abuja, the federal capital territory.

“We challenge those claiming to be third phase beneficiaries to come forward to state their camps or who their leaders are.

“It is important to reiterate that the Amnesty Office does not yet run a third phase of the amnesty programme, as neither the office nor its Chairman/Special Adviser to the President on Niger Delta, Kingsley Kuku, has received such directive from the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, who has the sole authority to make such declaration,” he said.

a1solution: One day Boko Haram would start demanding their own share of amnesty. Let this thing be totaly stoped to avoid other group from springing up some day.

you saw the future bro