TonyeBarcanista:
@OP Firstly, who says pipeline vandalism. facilitates ND development?


To answer you, vandalism doesn't cause development but it draws attention to the plight of the people.

Unfortunately, most vandals today are businessmen with backing of politicians that are taking advantage of the plight of the people to further their interest.

maclatunji:


Too clever to answer a question? This is a new one.

ificatchmodeh:


Oga please are you from naija delta?

If NO!
Your question is not relevant..no matter au we explain to you..you will never understand.

And we won't give you that answer. You seek to hear..

Then if YES!
What do you intent to achieve with this post?

ificatchmodeh:


Tonye..free that man..

He's not real,he is been mischievous with his question.

Emycord:
How does it underdevelope nigeria. Someone is aggrieved instead of you to hear from him you suppress him cos he is minority. Then he responds with the only means that you understand: violence. If its affecting only nd will nigeria react? The truth is they are crippling nigeria economy not only nd. Now lets assume lagos port feeds the whole nation will yoruba not act same way ? Before you criticise nd think if its you what will you do

maclatunji:


You can try, maybe when you bombed XYZ pipeline, you got ABC road built or when you bombed 123 pipeline, 789 industrial complex was built. I can understand if you answer honestly.

TonyeBarcanista:
Exactly. I think he has formed his opinion already, though very warped.

I always maintain that most of these guys don't really understand the situation and demand of Niger Delta.

gidgiddy:


Who dug the well is not as important as who owns the land on which it seats. Had the Niger Delta been a separate country, they could have easily invited anyb of the multi-national Oil companys to come and 'dig the well' for a negotiated percentage of the profits.



It was their land and resources long before there was anything called Nigeria. Just because military leaders from Lord Lugard to General Abacha came along and used one undemocratic decree or the other to deprive people control of their ancestral lands does not change this



They own it, it is their business what they do with it



It is actually the tragedy of trying to deprive people of what belongs to them

TonyeBarcanista:

,1. Niger Delta never dug any well but the land of some Niger Delta families was dug. The waters they fished on for their survival was polluted due to exploration activities. This has killed their predominant profession of Fishing.

2. By "law" or by the decree of one man? Who and who made the "law"? who made the Land Use. Decree? was ND Representatives involved or a certain General? Who made the Constitution? Were the people involved? If it was legal for mineral resources owners to keep 50% of their. rwenue before the. crude oil era, why make it illegal after the oil era?

3. The Niger Delta DOES NOT benefit from the peanut 13%, the elite does. Beside, we told Obj that we don't want 13% given to Governors but instead to the oil producing communities. Even the NDDC is not effective. We don't need any padipadi commission or ministry. 50% derivative, a considerable share to producing communities while we take care of spillage and degradation.

4. While I'm against carnage, I'm also against oppression.

Sweetle:
@Maclatunji, please what do you advise the Niger Delta people to do?

QuotaSystem:




I'm not here to convince you all to stop blowing up your lands and polluting your waters. I just had to expose the emptiness of the analogy.

gidgiddy:


Lets say you have a water well in your own compound. Out of the goodness of your heart, you allow all your neigbours to benefit from your well by connecting pipes to their homes and beyond. Overtime, you find out the consumotion of your own water by others has become so high that there is no longer enough for you and your family. You go to your neigbours and complain that you want to now control how this water is distributed and shared so as to have enough for your self, but your neigbours ignore you, some even insult you.

How long will it be before you disconnect your neigbours to remind them owns the well?

maclatunji:
My question is a very simple question, people should not bring diversionary arguments. Those who are blowing pipelines have not said they do so to develop Nigeria. So, for the purpose of this thread, we are leaving out the effects of their activities on Nigeria.

gidgiddy:


Lets say you have a water well in your own compound. Out of the goodness of your heart, you allow all your neigbours to benefit from your well by connecting pipes to their homes and beyond. Overtime, you find out the consumotion of your own water by others has become so high that there is no longer enough for you and your family. You go to your neigbours and complain that you want to now control how this water is distributed and shared so as to have enough for your self, but your neigbours ignore you, some even insult you.

How long will it be before you disconnect your neigbours to remind them owns the well?

Ndubuisipaul1:
you are sounding as if the Niger deltans created the mineral resources . Did they ? It is equally their as it is Yorubas . Afterall we are on nation .

maclatunji:
It is a straightforward question. Militants and their supporters will celebrate destroying government infrastructure in the NigerDelta I imagine. However, away from the mindless jubilation, how do pipeline bombing, attacking and kidnapping oil workers bring about growth and development in the region?

One would think the region would be the most developed by now if it were an effective strategy going by the number of attacks that have occurred in the region since 1999.

Feel free to explain if you have answers to the questions. Don't come here to boast about blowing up things, I have already identified that as mindless, what I want to know is how it is an effective development strategy.

kayfra:


You did not build the water well in the first place nor do you have legal recourse to the land that it's built on. It's just on your ancestral land.

Please use your brain.

QuotaSystem:


This is a weak and very poor analogy for several reasons;

1. The Niger Delta never dug the well, and never had & still doesn't have the capacity to do so.

2. The Niger Delta by law does not own the water in the well, Nigeria does, so there is nothing like "allowing neighbours out of goodness of the heart".

3. The Niger Delta itself benefits from the "water" from the well, even with an added derivation of extra buckets which other neighbors don't enjoy, but the parents of the house are fond of wasting and stealing it so members of its household then start dying of thirst in anger thinking it's due to the neighbors activities.

4. In trying to damage the well dug by the neighbors, the members of the household end up flooding and killing themselves.

What a tragedy brought about by unmitigated stupidity of the household and wickedness of the parents.