kettykin: The igbos fought a blind and unplanned war of secession against Soviet Union, British Empire and Arab world back Nigerian Army and yet inflicted a serious set back on the Nigerian army that gives them Night mare when ever they hear of Biafra.

Going forward the Ijaws will not fight a blind war of secession , ijaws are smarter than that , they will cut of the link to Nigeria's economy first before finishing Nigeria through insurgencies and guerrillas tactics.
Nigeria strength lies in the forming of alliances with neighbouring nations and super powers and using blockades which Boko Haram did not give them opportunity to use , the last outing of the Ijaws saw a very quick strike force that could get to anywhere near the coast like the Atlas Cove and Bakassi in lightning precision hitting their Targets and leaving with out detection unlike the Nigerian forces that can not hit with precision and always in the process slaughtering the innocent and incurring outrage of human right community.

Anybody who knows the effect of bombing third mainland bridge ,the numerous power plants in the Niger delta , airports refineries , Fuel depots ,sea ports , ships , stadiums and telecommunication infrastructure will not pray that the militants are ever provoked as long as Nigeria exists as an independent , united nation.

Ijaw/Niger Delta militants are about the only group invicible enough to perpetrate these kind of attacks and still be uncaught, if you doubt me ask Boko Haram .

kettykin: The igbos fought a blind and unplanned war of secession against Soviet Union, British Empire and Arab world back Nigerian Army and yet inflicted a serious set back on the Nigerian army that gives them Night mare when ever they hear of Biafra.

Going forward the Ijaws will not fight a blind war of secession , ijaws are smarter than that , they will cut of the link to Nigeria's economy first before finishing Nigeria through insurgencies and guerrillas tactics.
Nigeria strength lies in the forming of alliances with neighbouring nations and super powers and using blockades which Boko Haram did not give them opportunity to use , the last outing of the Ijaws saw a very quick strike force that could get to anywhere near the coast like the Atlas Cove and Bakassi in lightning precision ,hitting their Targets , delivering massive devastations and leaving with out detection unlike the Nigerian forces that can not hit with precision and always in the process slaughter the innocent and incurre outrage of human right community.

Anybody who knows the effect of bombing third mainland bridge ,the numerous power plants in the Niger delta , airports refineries , Fuel depots ,sea ports , ships , stadiums and telecommunication infrastructure will not pray that the militants are ever provoked as long as Nigeria exists as an independent , united nation.

Ijaw/Niger Delta militants are about the only group invicible enough to perpetrate these kind of attacks and still be uncaught, if you doubt me ask Boko Haram .

phantom: yes they will do all that but they will still lose.the war wont even last one month before they surrender.they would need lots of ingenuity to survive long and trust me, they lack ingenuity! I live with them.i know how they reason.

barcanista: Ignore that Igbo-man, WE the Ijaws are not calling for war or secession, but resource control and improved living standard

kettykin: The igbos fought a blind and unplanned war of secession against Soviet Union, British Empire and Arab world back Nigerian Army and yet inflicted a serious set back on the Nigerian army that gives them Night mare when ever they hear of Biafra.

Going forward the Ijaws will not fight a blind war of secession , ijaws are smarter than that , they will cut of the link to Nigeria's economy first before finishing Nigeria through insurgencies and guerrillas tactics.
Nigeria strength lies in the forming of alliances with neighbouring nations and super powers and using blockades which Boko Haram did not give them opportunity to use , the last outing of the Ijaws saw a very quick strike force that could get to anywhere near the coast like the Atlas Cove and Bakassi in lightning precision ,hitting their Targets , delivering massive devastations and leaving with out detection unlike the Nigerian forces that can not hit with precision and always in the process slaughter the innocent and incurre outrage of human right community.

Anybody who knows the effect of bombing third mainland bridge ,the numerous power plants in the Niger delta , airports refineries , Fuel depots ,sea ports , ships , stadiums and telecommunication infrastructure will not pray that the militants are ever provoked as long as Nigeria exists as an independent , united nation.

Ijaw/Niger Delta militants are about the only group invicible enough to perpetrate these kind of attacks and still be uncaught, if you doubt me ask Boko Haram .

Nuzo':
Only a foolish man of which has to be a bigoted Nigerian would think that Ijaw want war simply cos Asari may have insinuated such.

To the best of my knowledge, all Asari has been saying is what any Niger deltan would say; "Justice or nothing else".

On the other hand, the Nigerian elites who happen to be the cabal/establishment won't allow war to break off.
And should war break off, trust me....nobody or ethnic group is going to ally with any dammed body to fight the Ijaws. Are the Yoruba going to ally with the Hausa or Igbo to fight the Ijaw?

Matter of fact, should war break off today, Massob, Mossop, opc, Acf, BokoHaram etc will use the opportunity to advance their own secessionist course.

Wait a minute, who did the naive op say was going to fight the Ijaw.

onomeasike: 1) The Ijaws are minorities and they still have an exaggerated impression of their real population and geographical boundaries. (refer to their battles with original landowners in benin, warri, ilajeland etc and controversy over who is a real Ijaw for example people from where the president hail from are not historically regarded as Ijaws unlike Asari Dokubo who is from the real ijaw clans)



2) The Ijaws are seriously disadvantaged in terms of human and economic capital (most educated and wealthy Ijaws have a taste and lifestyle they believe is above the primitive settings of most ijaw clans and those currently stealing petro-dollars are stocking up arms for personal security/struggle for power and mostly investing outside ijawland )

3) The ijaw identity as a brand (like the igbo identity) is quietly assuming a negative perception that they may no longer be entrusted with sensitive national and security asset.

4) The ijaws are surrounded with people who will never support the ijaw in their struggle because they have been cheated or fought by the ijaw resulting to loss of lives and property ( the itsekiri, Benin, Ilaje, urhobo etc) will never be in a country to be dominated by the ijaw.

5) The ijaw cannot feed themselves due to paucity of land and the access to the sea can always be bombarded or barricaded (refer to the experience of the igbo during the Nigerian Civil War)

6) The ijaw have serious internal division and this current unity among their elite is temporary. Some ijaw communities have cheated one another in terms of oil well location revenue and they know same will continue in absence of a neutral arbiter (even within Nembe, there is historical enmity and unsettled scores between the two Nembe)

7) The ijaw have a system that promote laziness among the malefolks and most children are being catered for by their mothers whose wise counsel against war may prevail.

The ijaws are in serious economic poverty even right now let alone when there is war.The cost of consumables in ijaw communities is usually high because the expensive cost of water transportation of goods is usually built into the cost of goods (even ordinary sweet sold #5 costs #20 in far flung ijaw communities)

9.Ijaws lack health infrastructure and the casualties that may arise can not be handled by them.

10) They don't border any country like the Yoruba or northerners in the event that women and children have to move into safe camps or seek temporary asylum or secure alliances.

Finally, if there's any war, the battle ground is going to be ijawland!

What would be your advice to the ijaw if you are in their shoes?

kettykin: The igbos fought a blind and unplanned war of secession against Soviet Union, British Empire and Arab world back Nigerian Army and yet inflicted a serious set back on the Nigerian army that gives them Night mare when ever they hear of Biafra.

Going forward the Ijaws will not fight a blind war of secession , ijaws are smarter than that , they will cut of the link to Nigeria's economy first before finishing Nigeria through insurgencies and guerrillas tactics.
Nigeria strength lies in the forming of alliances with neighbouring nations and super powers and using blockades which Boko Haram did not give them opportunity to use , the last outing of the Ijaws saw a very quick strike force that could get to anywhere near the coast like the Atlas Cove and Bakassi in lightning precision ,hitting their Targets , delivering massive devastations and leaving with out detection unlike the Nigerian forces that can not hit with precision and always in the process slaughter the innocent and incurre outrage of human right community.

Anybody who knows the effect of bombing third mainland bridge ,the numerous power plants in the Niger delta , airports refineries , Fuel depots ,sea ports , ships , stadiums and telecommunication infrastructure will not pray that the militants are ever provoked as long as Nigeria exists as an independent , united nation.

Ijaw/Niger Delta militants are about the only group invicible enough to perpetrate these kind of attacks and still be uncaught, if you doubt me ask Boko Haram .

Abagworo:

Anyone who studied Biafran war will know that there will never be full scale war. Modern day warfare is all about terrorism. Ijaws will never go to war against Nigeria but if they feel cheated will resort to kidnap, guerilla tactics and sabotage.

omiobo:

You don't know what they call WAR. When war starts your friends may feed on you.

phantom: the ogbias seem to relate more with obua/ahoada people.they should have been in rivers state

aanumama:
, honestly he deserve being fed on

aanumama:
, honestly he deserve being fed on

obamartins:


Yet they fought the Nigerian Army to a standstill, thereby crippling the Economy of Nigeria and forcing Oil prices to skyrocket in the Global Market, forcing Obj and Yardua to call for a truce. You know nothing about the IZONS.

olala32:
pls tell the f@olish op,he lack conspiracy.

achi4u: My advice to the Ijaws is that they can't win any war with nigeria government except where other minority neighbors join hand and fight ...still their luck is still hanging in the balance.

Their land will be the theater and the experiment of the war.

kettykin: The igbos fought a blind and unplanned war of secession against Soviet Union, British Empire and Arab world back Nigerian Army and yet inflicted a serious set back on the Nigerian army that gives them Night mare when ever they hear of Biafra.

Going forward the Ijaws will not fight a blind war of secession , ijaws are smarter than that , they will cut of the link to Nigeria's economy first before finishing Nigeria through insurgencies and guerrillas tactics.
Nigeria strength lies in the forming of alliances with neighbouring nations and super powers and using blockades which Boko Haram did not give them opportunity to use , the last outing of the Ijaws saw a very quick strike force that could get to anywhere near the coast like the Atlas Cove and Bakassi in lightning precision ,hitting their Targets , delivering massive devastations and leaving with out detection unlike the Nigerian forces that can not hit with precision and always in the process slaughter the innocent and incurre outrage of human right community.

Anybody who knows the effect of bombing third mainland bridge ,the numerous power plants in the Niger delta , airports refineries , Fuel depots ,sea ports , ships , stadiums and telecommunication infrastructure will not pray that the militants are ever provoked as long as Nigeria exists as an independent , united nation.

Ijaw/Niger Delta militants are about the only group invicible enough to perpetrate these kind of attacks and still be uncaught, if you doubt me ask Boko Haram .

Nuzo':
Only a foolish man of which has to be a bigoted Nigerian would think that Ijaw want war simply cos Asari may have insinuated such.

To the best of my knowledge, all Asari has been saying is what any Niger deltan would say; "Justice or nothing else".

On the other hand, the Nigerian elites who happen to be the cabal/establishment won't allow war to break off. They will loose big time.

And should war break off, trust me....nobody or ethnic group is going to ally with any dammed body to fight the Ijaws. Are the Yoruba going to ally with the Hausa or Igbo to fight the Ijaw?

Matter of fact, should war break off today, Massob, Mossop, opc, Acf, BokoHaram etc will use the opportunity to advance their own secessionist course.

Wait a minute, who did the naive op say was going to fight the Ijaw.

qtx:

From history some world super-powers support countries with such enormous natural resources. Am scared a country like US may support the ijaw nation bc of the oil. Dont you think so? bc US is always fond of that. My thinking

obamartins:


Yet they fought the Nigerian Army to a standstill, thereby crippling the Economy of Nigeria and forcing Oil prices to skyrocket in the Global Market, forcing Obj and Yardua to call for a truce. You know nothing about the IZONS.

DerideGull:


Ndigbo and Biafrans did not fight a blind and unplanned war of secession but a war of necessity. If Biafra was allowed, at least, six months of peaceful existence, which the British will never allow, the outcome of the war would have been difference. Eastern region was not a sovereign entity even for one day before the war of attrition was precipitated upon it. There was no strategy or defensive mechanism set in place to defend its boundaries and coastal lines.

Today, Nigeria is setting itself up for a war of disintegration unlike what was obtained in 1967. In about 15 years ago, Lt Col Umar drew a strategic scenario on how impending war in Nigeria might probably shakedown. He alluded that anybody who is hedging a bet on the future war of disintegration in Nigeria based on Nigeria/Biafra war remains a fool.

One of the cardinal axes of the strategic scenario is already shaping up on the Nigerian polity. There will be many saboteurs in the southern Nigeria and good thing is that they are already raising their heads. Anybody who saw or studiously read about Nigeria/Biafra war from the neutral or vanquished perspective could easily see the axis is forming.

I hardly pay any mind to craps vomited by deluded and overfed Ijo folk about war and Nigeria.

POPE II: They do that with what? Stones? Spears? ^

kettykin:
it will be unrealistic to think that the same people who gave a warning strike in eagle square Abuja and in Atlas Cove Lagos don't have what it takes to organise wide spread attacks if further provoked

kettykin:
it will be unrealistic to think that the same people who gave a warning strike in eagle square Abuja and in Atlas Cove Lagos don't have what it takes to organise wide spread attacks if further provoked

barcanista: Mr Man, with due respect Asari and his exMilitants ilks are on their own, they don't have the authority of the masses.

Ijaw has many kingdoms, an Okrika man will not "heed to any war called by an Otuoke man or a Kalabari man IF Okrika survival is not threatened.
Same with other kingdoms.
The truth is most of the political class and "elder statesmen" are speaking for themselves.
In Ijawland we have Amayanabors for each kingdioms, each kingdoms also have clans and every clan has a Canoe House, the heads of each Canoe houses together with the Amayanabor decide when the people will go to war and the Heads of Canoe houses prosecutes the War. The war MUST be as a result of threat to the existence of the Kingdoms. Politicians and Vagabonds don't take decision for anybody.

Jonathan should concentrate on delivering his promises, he shouldn't let persona non grata like Asari to deceive him.


Once again Neither Patience nor Jonathan nor Asari nor Clark nor Sekibo etc has the power and authority to tell the Ijaw Nation what to do.

God bless Okrika Kingdom
God bless Ijaw Nation
God bless Nigeria
God bless the President

atlwireles:

Ijaw_Citizen aka Alj_harem, use your yoruba name