texazzpete:

Greed and foolishness is the problem with the Niger Delta.
Look at lagos and see how the state governor is bringing progress and change to the state. How many State Governors in the Delta are doing the same? This is despite the fact that they collect the usual 13% derivation cash as well as the huge sums in taxes from the operating oil companies in the states. Yet there is little or no development to show for it.
I laugh at these simpletons who delude themselves into thinking that MEND Is fighting for the people. After so many years of 'struggle', what has millitancy done to help develop the state? All they have so far achieved is to provide a climate of fear, making people wary of investing in the region.

What did MEND do with the money they collected from that southwest state that they rigged the elections for the PDP governor? What did they do with the N200 million they were collecting monthly from the Bayelsa state government?
Are you aware that N200 million can sink 2,000 boreholes, providing potable water for hundreds of thousands of Bayelsans? And that's just one month!

In Lebanon, Hezbollah builds schools, houses, they run courts, they build roads, tar streets and perform civil obligations. The Tamil Tigers were similarly active. Hamas also ploughs back money into the society.

What does MEND do? NOTHING!

But i'm not surprised. A whole generation of ND youths have been trained to be blind. They've been trained to aim their ire at the multinational oil companies and the federal government. Meanwhile, they are too blind to notice that their Local government chairmen are doing NOTHING, and their Governors are idle too. That is where a lot of development is meant to come from!!#

Who am i kidding? these are the same people that gave Alams a hero's welcome after he stole N50 billion.
The irony is rich. The 'Governor General' of Ijaw Land stole enough money to build over 200,000 boreholes across the Ijaw nation. Yet they revere him.
C'est la vie. The people deserve their leaders.

Abagworo:

@babasoty.port harcourt is not riverine.na pure ikwerreland.in order not to engage in unneccessary argument visit this link and you will be ashamed.http://allafrica.com/stories/200812190067.html

Dis one na from the horses mouth.

I found out at the sites personally that more than 500 people working on the sites they were all non-Bayelsans. I asked if there was any Bayelsan, there was none and I was shocked. That was when I know we have a problem. Because no matter how much you tried to stimulate the economy it would fly over the Bayelsan because our youths won't work.

"I would give you another example - the community around Saipem protested that they were not being given jobs. We intervened and Saipem decided to give 70 quality jobs to boys from that community.

The community nominated people to go and work there and I was happy that through our intervention we were able to create the jobs. Later I saw one of the boys and questioned him why he is not at work.


"I later found out upon enquiry that he sold his space to an Igbo man for N40, 000 a month out of the N 70,000 he is being paid and that is what all of them did. They sold all their spaces to Igbo people. You would send Bayelsans for training through oil companies; they sell their spaces to Igbo people and those acquire the necessary skills.

texazzpete:

Who am i kidding? these are the same people that gave Alams a hero's welcome after he stole N50 billion.
The irony is rich. The 'Governor General' of Ijaw Land stole enough money to build over 200,000 boreholes across the Ijaw nation. Yet they revere him.
C'est la vie. The people deserve their leaders.

Ibime:

I would advise you to get the phock out of the Niger Delta with such a racist attitude. Despite the fact that you work there, you have the nerve to talk such rubbish. You have gone from castigating MEND (which is fair enough) to stigmatising Ijaw people. . . . . anything that suits your agenda! Just like the Igbo guys said on that Biafra thread, you are a tribalist buffoon. . . . yes, Ijaws deserve Alams (who rigged his way thoroughly into power). . . . .just like Yorubas deserve Segun Oni, Obasanjo, Adedibu and all other thugs that lead your people. Stupid buffoon!

texazzpete:

Sorry, my dear retard, but i'm not Yoruba. In fact, i don't belong to any of the major tribes in this country.
I find it amusing that you failed to respond to any of the assertions in my response, instead choosing the easy route of mindless insults. Kindly tell the house the last thing that your local government chairman did for his people instead of resorting to insults!

It's funny how Nigerians are quick to pull out the 'tribalist' card when an unbiased opinion is offered on any topic. A few moronic South Easterners called me tribalistic for daring to suggest that the first coup may have had something to do with the subsequent violence in the north. Now here you are calling me tribalistic for stating my opinion that much of the development issues with the ND region would have been solved if only the people (including the leaders) were alive to their own responsibilities. Do i have to embrace your flawed point of view before i'm politically correct?

here you are supporting a thieving, terrorist group that (as the topic implies) has added a tribalistic slant to their agenda by trying to harm Northerners. Yet you have the nerve to accuse someone else of tribalism. You hypocrisy stinks.

Finally, every JSS1 student knows that Nigerians ALL belong to the Negroid race. So how can a supposedly educated person be calling me 'racist'?

ThinkRait:

If texazzpete was the Army chief, he'd have bombed out the entire Niger Delta.
He knows what the issues are, but his hatred for people prevents him from thinking constructively.
Alams stole billions, Saminu Turaki stole billions, Joshua Dariye stole billions, Abacha stole trillions. Corruption is not a Niger Delta thing, it is a Nigerian thing.

I'm not in support of militancy neither am I in support of military brutality.

Lets think like human beings PLEASE.

Greed and foolishness is the problem with the Niger Delta.
Look at lagos and see how the state governor is bringing progress and change to the state. How many State Governors in the Delta are doing the same? This is despite the fact that they collect the usual 13% derivation cash as well as the huge sums in taxes from the operating oil companies in the states. Yet there is little or no development to show for it.
I laugh at these simpletons who delude themselves into thinking that MEND Is fighting for the people. After so many years of 'struggle', what has millitancy done to help develop the state? All they have so far achieved is to provide a climate of fear, making people wary of investing in the region.

What did MEND do with the money they collected from that southwest state that they rigged the elections for the PDP governor? What did they do with the N200 million they were collecting monthly from the Bayelsa state government?
Are you aware that N200 million can sink 2,000 boreholes, providing potable water for hundreds of thousands of Bayelsans? And that's just one month!

In Lebanon, Hezbollah builds schools, houses, they run courts, they build roads, tar streets and perform civil obligations. The Tamil Tigers were similarly active. Hamas also ploughs back money into the society.

What does MEND do? NOTHING!

But i'm not surprised. A whole generation of ND youths have been trained to be blind. They've been trained to aim their ire at the multinational oil companies and the federal government. Meanwhile, they are too blind to notice that their Local government chairmen are doing NOTHING, and their Governors are idle too. That is where a lot of development is meant to come from!!#

Who am i kidding? these are the same people that gave Alams a hero's welcome after he stole N50 billion.
The irony is rich. The 'Governor General' of Ijaw Land stole enough money to build over 200,000 boreholes across the Ijaw nation. Yet they revere him.
C'est la vie. The people deserve their leaders.

sometime it baffles me the way Nigerians talk and reason.
first what about the billions of naira which the respective state Government has been given, what have they done with it. these communities have senators and reps and have constutiency projects allocation, what have they done with it. if they have started any project with it, the government can then come in, we have NDDC, we have Niger-Delta Ministry, you have taxes from multinationals, what else do you want, if these billions are not there to develop the communities. the problem ND have is on their superiors not the Govt. what have they being able to achieve with the little they have before you talk of big ones. these guys has really taken more than enough and need to be given a big whip, they have lsot the public sympathy of Nigerian.

babasoty:

you should have been bold enough to tell us your tribe maybe then we would have known if your state is also not affected by the mentality of every governor wanting to loot his state treasury, for the ijaws hailing alamco, its better for a house thief to steal your money than a foreigner to. no one said mend is fighting for the niger deltans but due to the inefficiencies of both the federal and state government mend came to being and for the huge sums you claim oil firms pay in taxes please you better check the revenue sharing formula again, then you would know the federal government gets the highest share which they use to develop your place before the people that actually produce the oil, would you compare what alams stole to what babangida, abacha and their cohorts carted away or even obasanjo, if the federal government doesn't work quickly to ameliorate the plight of the niger deltans expect more criminal gangs who would wanna fight in the name of the niger delta people, the fact that an organization like mend exists should be a wake up call to the nigerian state that something is definitely wrong in the delta and please its not only the activities of mend that drives away foreign investments in nigeria, the activities of the yoruba masterminded 419 or yahozee and the igbo dominated armed robbery and 419 too has left a sour taste in the nigerian psyche, our re branding nigeria isn't because of mend and its activities but because of these funny traits not found in the niger delta region, you can go on and say niger deltans are lazy good, but what causes a man to want to defraud another man if not laziness and greed. what of armed robbery and ritual killing would u say thats the handiwork of a hardworking person, and for hizbollah and hamas thats one funny line. those organizations were formed out of the same needs like mend even if mend did derail, hezbollah has also derailed killing innocent israelis what about the tamil tigers, do you know they invented the suicide bombing what can justify that, do you know they murdered a great man live rajiv ghandi  and use innocent civilians as human shields as for hamas please lets not talk about their criminality, all these organization too promote crime as a means to get more weapons and fund to achieve their goal, not that i justify kidnappings but tings have been going wrong in the niger delta and the government has been keeping a blind eye, the creation of mend is what happens when you let illegality run amok and deprivation run riot  

chiozor:

sometime it baffles me the way Nigerians talk and reason.
first what about the billions of naira which the respective state Government has been given, what have they done with it. these communities have senators and reps and have constutiency projects allocation, what have they done with it. if they have started any project with it, the government can then come in, we have NDDC, we have Niger-Delta Ministry, you have taxes from multinationals, what else do you want, if these billions are not there to develop the communities. the problem ND have is on their superiors not the Govt. what have they being able to achieve with the little they have before you talk of big ones. these guys has really taken more than enough and need to be given a big whip, they have lsot the public sympathy of Nigerian.

babasoty:

you should have been bold enough to tell us your tribe maybe then we would have known if your state is also not affected by the mentality of every governor wanting to loot his state treasury, for the ijaws hailing alamco, its better for a house thief to steal your money than a foreigner to. no one said mend is fighting for the niger deltans but due to the inefficiencies of both the federal and state government mend came to being and for the huge sums you claim oil firms pay in taxes please you better check the revenue sharing formula again, then you would know the federal government gets the highest share which they use to develop your place before the people that actually produce the oil, would you compare what alams stole to what babangida, abacha and their cohorts carted away or even obasanjo, if the federal government doesn't work quickly to ameliorate the plight of the niger deltans expect more criminal gangs who would wanna fight in the name of the niger delta people, the fact that an organization like mend exists should be a wake up call to the nigerian state that something is definitely wrong in the delta and please its not only the activities of mend that drives away foreign investments in nigeria, the activities of the yoruba masterminded 419 or yahozee and the igbo dominated armed robbery and 419 too has left a sour taste in the nigerian psyche, our re branding nigeria isn't because of mend and its activities but because of these funny traits not found in the niger delta region, you can go on and say niger deltans are lazy good, but what causes a man to want to defraud another man if not laziness and greed. what of armed robbery and ritual killing would u say thats the handiwork of a hardworking person, and for hizbollah and hamas thats one funny line. those organizations were formed out of the same needs like mend even if mend did derail, hezbollah has also derailed killing innocent israelis what about the tamil tigers, do you know they invented the suicide bombing what can justify that, do you know they murdered a great man live rajiv ghandi  and use innocent civilians as human shields as for hamas please lets not talk about their criminality, all these organization too promote crime as a means to get more weapons and fund to achieve their goal, not that i justify kidnappings but tings have been going wrong in the niger delta and the government has been keeping a blind eye, the creation of mend is what happens when you let illegality run amok and deprivation run riot  

ThinkRait:

If texazzpete was the Army chief, he'd have bombed out the entire Niger Delta.
He knows what the issues are, but his hatred for people prevents him from thinking constructively.
Alams stole billions, Saminu Turaki stole billions, Joshua Dariye stole billions, Abacha stole trillions. Corruption is not a Niger Delta thing, it is a Nigerian thing.

I'm not in support of militancy neither am I in support of military brutality.

Lets think like human beings PLEASE.

ThinkRait:

Alams stole billions, Saminu Turaki stole billions, Joshua Dariye stole billions, Abacha stole trillions. Corruption is not a Niger Delta thing, it is a Nigerian thing.

texazzpete:

So expressing my own opinion = hatred of people, abi?
If i was the Army chief, the Nigerian army would be a lot more professional than it is. And i too would have dealt decisively with this latest affront from the millitants. What other choice would i have, with millitants killing JTF forces just out doing their job. Do you think these dead JTF don't have families? or loved ones?

Even when CNN was reporting on the war in Sri Lanka, they made sure they inserted a disclaimer to any news from the warfront, stating the sources and the possibility of the information being tainted with propaganda. Here i see people swallowing EVERY report from the MEND propaganda machine with reckless abandon. It's always a good call to confirm from unimpeachable sources before screaming  genocide.

I tried to make a point that the people of the area have not done enough to hold their leaders responsible and accountable for the lack of development, and you respond with this?!! You truly disappoint me.

udezue:

The last time I checked Edo produces no drop of oil. Am I wrong?  [size=38pt]VERY WRONG[/size]

texazzpete:

I tried to make a point that the people of the area have not done enough to hold their leaders responsible and accountable for the lack of development, and you respond with this?!! You truly disappoint me.

JJYOU:

oga where are you from and how do you hold your leaders accountable in your area of naija?

texazzpete:

Learn to read. The information is on this page.
I don't live or work in my state, and yes, i hold the leaders in that state (specifically the ex-governor Lucky Igbinedion) responsible for the rot and lack of development in the state, NOT the federal government.
99% of people in Edo state will tell you that they blame Lucky Igbinedion for the present situation in the state, they'll tell you he stole the state resources and is perhaps the worst governor EVER in Nigeria.
What they won't do is praise and fete him at every occasion. What they did was to make his party (PDP) pay for leaving them in the hands of such a miscreant. THEY VOTED PDP OUT!! and they stood by that mandate even when it was stolen.

Does that answer your question?

texazzpete:

Learn to read. The information is on this page.
I don't live or work in my state, and yes, i hold the leaders in that state (specifically the ex-governor Lucky Igbinedion) responsible for the rot and lack of development in the state, NOT the federal government.
99% of people in Edo state will tell you that they blame Lucky Igbinedion for the present situation in the state, they'll tell you he stole the state resources and is perhaps the worst governor EVER in Nigeria.
What they won't do is praise and fete him at every occasion. What they did was to make his party (PDP) pay for leaving them in the hands of such a miscreant. THEY VOTED PDP OUT!! and they stood by that mandate even when it was stolen.

Does that answer your question?