Crude oil better known as black gold is known to abound in the Niger Delta area of the Country in vast reserves since discovered in the 1950s but it has benefitted the indigenes in so little capacity but not spared by the negative effects of oil exploration on both the inhabitants of the Delta and the owners of the land.
1. The land use decree of the 1970s ensured all resources of the state of Nigeria are state owned but the sufferings attached are owned by the natives ranging from ozone depletions due to gas flaring and cancers.
2. We have lost more heroes and foes than the Nigerian state as a whole lost in quest for independence ranging from the death of Isaac boro in the year 1967s to the elimination of saro wiwa in the 1994s and then the brief seize of her territory by the biafrans in 1966.
3. We are all used to guns and ammunitions from tender age as we battle the central government forces for attention whilst still dragging lands and oil wells amongst rival and warring communities meanwhile we are entitled to just crumbs as host to all the multi nationals.
4. We get less than 1% off our own lands as the rivers lands and streams are rendered moribund whilst far away lands like Lagos and Abuja are best of, thanx to our cleptomanic local leaders too for making this a reality.
5. We are termed as lazy knowing that our livelihoods of fishing and farming has been taking away by our own very sons, daughters and government.
6. If we protest the actions of the multi nationals, they employ the army to quell and kill us as evident in the ogoni protest of 1994 that led to the killing of one of our very finest chief ken saro wiwa.
7. If we protest by locking the oil well valves. They whip us into submission as we watch the blood of our land flow out freely to service far away lands and energise people from the far north in the name of one federal Nigeria.
8. If we blow the pipelines as the more vibrant yet gullible youths are doing lately, yes we force the oppressors to negotiate and listen to is but then we lose our waters and devastate our already destroyed ecosystem further. As evident below.
9. If we bear arms , it becomes our pain as we see drastic rise in cultism activities and political murders, if we are docile we become seating ducks as in the end we still loose.
10. Our blessing is our curse, they name us 5% and give us 5% appointments and attentions, they degrade us because of our numbers, they share our common wealth in a manner that sees us as mere spectators.

And I ask is this oil not a curse to the delta? Since its obviously not a blessing to her. Go spread the word.
The avengers may be right in their demans s but after they succeed our loses out weigh the success.

The governments approach is wrong but who is going to make them pay reparations for such injustice, who is even just enough to judge and bold enough to accost the emperors.

WIth tears in our eyes we weep, with sorrows in our hearts we mourn our dead sons, daughters and land.

Indeed we are the biggest loosers alive ...

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You need to visit those areas and see things for yourself. The government really neglected these people.

Enough is enough!

Yes the government has neglected us for way too long. Yes enough is enough!
Yes yes and Yes!!
But most importantly what then do we do as a people?
Pipeline destruction is surely not the answer neither is protest nor arms struggle!

We need solutions now not complaints not even apologies.

What do we do now to turn the trends for the better?

#istandwithavengers

I am always stuck with this notion that a people are first enslaved from within before without. Our greatest enemies in the ND are those brethren who rather play Brutus than Anthony and those with Iscariot's larcenous inclinations against Peter's benevolent protectionism.

Am so happy with the write up.

lordcabasa:
Yes the government has neglected us for way too long. Yes enough is enough!
Yes yes and Yes!!
But most importantly what then do we do as a people?
Pipeline destruction is surely not the answer neither is protest nor arms struggle!

We need solutions now not complaints not even apologies.

What do we do now to turn the trends for the better?

No more lip services Govt and the oil majors should come together and start massive infrastructural development of the region make sure everything is of the 21st century ranging from hospital to schools, and Industries

lordcabasa:
Yes the government has neglected us for way too long. Yes enough is enough!
Yes yes and Yes!!
But most importantly what then do we do as a people?
Pipeline destruction is surely not the answer neither is protest nor arms struggle!

We need solutions now not complaints not even apologies.

What do we do now to turn the trends for the better?

Simply look beyond oil. Oil is not wealth but destraction. Dubai is what it is today because they looked beyond oil while Saudi Arabia is in deeper economic crisis than Nigeria despite all their oil.