geronimoedeh1:
Igbos want to still niger-delta oil...very greedy set of people.
Look what they have done .

cliffypatt:

If Jonathan had focused on the ND, I am sure you will be one of those uttering "Sentimental buffoon" Why can't you stop complaining here and there?

honeychild:


I remember all of you laughing at those cautioning NDA (Niger Delta Avengers) when they were bombing pipelines. I think you have now become environmentalist too

Abeg nothing concern Nigerians joor. Avengers should resume bombing in September.

Remimadrid:
They will be busy bombing and destroying their own land, while blamiming the federal for their doing so, while their leaders from the niger delta becomes wealthier.
Niger delta youths are the most stupid set of people in the world.

Remimadrid:
They will be busy bombing and destroying their own land, while blamiming the federal for their doing so, while their leaders from the niger delta becomes wealthier.
Niger delta youths are the most stupid set of people in the world.

legislatively:
no one bombed pipelines in ogoni and ilaje, the federal government in conjunction with the oil companies refused to do clean-up.
The case is the same in most part of nigerdelta

Killurself:
Urhobo spillage, isoko spillage, itshekiri spillage and ijaws Master of bunkery, I know spillage happen but most of the spillage caused by damaging of pipeline by bunkerer. Most of places in Niger delta water way are full of crude oil and their brothers and sisters knows that activities of bunkery is affecting their fishing especially those of fisherman but they can says anything. One ijaw man said no fish for water I now asked him why he said the crude dey pursue the fish, I said who cause it he said nah our brothers that engaged in bunkery, I said but why can you organised fishermen's like you and talk to them, he said hummmmmm, then go kill us, I just look at him and shake my head, who re you to blame government or security.,nobody. Sometimes they should blame themselves. If it real spillage the company will come there very fast and lock the pipeline and clean the spillage. Almost all the communities in Niger delta get cooking camps, where they cook crude to diesels and kerosene. When you come to Niger delta you will know most of things am saying

Killurself:
Urhobo spillage, isoko spillage, itshekiri spillage and ijaws Master of bunkery, I know spillage happen but most of the spillage caused by damaging of pipeline by bunkerer. Most of places in Niger delta water way are full of crude oil and their brothers and sisters knows that activities of bunkery is affecting their fishing especially those of fisherman but they can says anything. One ijaw man said no fish for water I now asked him why he said the crude dey pursue the fish, I said who cause it he said nah our brothers that engaged in bunkery, I said but why can you organised fishermen's like you and talk to them, he said hummmmmm, then go kill us, I just look at him and shake my head, who re you to blame government or security.,nobody. Sometimes they should blame themselves. If it real spillage the company will come there very fast and lock the pipeline and clean the spillage. Almost all the communities in Niger delta get cooking camps, where they cook crude to diesels and kerosene. When you come to Niger delta you will know most of things am saying

FrankGiel:

Let me make u understand how lazy ur people are..
Every service company that works on the field are mandated to employ 4 indigenes (2 skilled, 2 unskilled) from the community per job operation and those indigenes are paid..from all my experiences, they never want to learn. They will never show up to be trained.. They will blab with their entitlement mentality, that they are landlord's. when its time for payment they will show up... Every company that visits the field/rig , mandates Their CLO to pay a required levy prior to going to the field. When we get to the field, a fresh set of levy is imposed.. All these money go to a selected set of disgruntled lazy individuals..
Long story cut short.. Ur people are pretty lazy!!

lordjosh:

GOD & DEVIL PUNISH YOU!

omaar12:
Are they the only ones in the national assembly, they can only put forth a motion or whatever those guys do up there. they can force the rest assembly member to support the motion.
what will the north gain from the clean up ( Nothing ) so they won't support
what will the south west gain from the clean up( nothing)
what will the south east gain from the clean up( Nothing)
as far as this other region does not take it seriously and the cash flow is not stopped. the real clean up will never ever come.
But in their own country or a country shared with just one of the 3 major ethnic group they can lobby for the clean up and the motion will set sail perfectly. they can't heal the land even with restructuring and they can't push for self determination on their own.

khalids:


Accepted, they cant do it alone......But have those senators, house of rep members put up these notions.....mind you same applies for all senators as regards the regions they represent.....Senators usually have to lobby and put pressure for their motions to be taken seriously......if the senator cannot get it done...then he is not the right person for the Job....it means he just there getting paid and doing nothing...

Its also part of the Governors, LG Chairmen and Counselors duty to help in creasing the pressure that the motions moved by the senators should be attended to with seriousness....but are they doing this...

Government is about politicking...lobbying....compromising ....and even blackmailing.....it appears the leadership is not playing the politics right or they don't care and are simply just interested in the money that enters their personal account

omaar12:
The Igbos are pushing strongly for self determination under mazi Nnamdi kanu the question is, is he a politician (No).aside from the fact that he uses abusive words on other ethnic group I can tell u for a fact that most people from other ethnic group support him because he came out to say what everyone has been meaning to say BT to afraid to. And the ND will hold those leaders account when they are on their own, they won't blame abuja, southwest or south east. for their leaders have no reason not to be accountable.

cliffypatt:

I see why you don't want restructuring because your parasitic state will find it difficult to survive. You can only depend on the ND oil for survival. Take it or leave full restructuring will take place

omaar12:
Why support something that you won't benefit anything from. let take the issue of the second Niger bridge. if this bridge was to be constructed to connect the south and north, I would have been built and we would have Even forgotten about it.
Am saying no matter how you try to lobby those senators from other regions, provided they won't be benefiting anything from it, it just won't sail.

IamaNigerianGuy:


Since you live in the Niger Delta, you might know also that it is the endemic poverty that drives the people to bunkering.
What solution do you propose ? They should remain passive and die of hunger while Bubu the dullard (aided by the other members of government) spends the Niger Delta money on frivolities and treating his mystery ailment in London ?

IdeeEsperanza:
We have our leaders in the Senate and House of Representatives. WTF are they doing there?

khalids:


Its called lobbying because the other senators also have motions to push.....When they come with theirs too, you also would not support them.....
The senate is sent up in a mutually assured destruction kind of way....if you throw away my bill, i throw away you own bill too...

The problem is our senators are not interested in what the people want only in what enters their pocket.....It is a Nigerian problem and it involves all ethnic groups...

omaar12:
So we can both agree that those in power are the reason for our ethnic division it so divided that it best we all go our separate ways where lobbying won't be too hard a task for our senators of the various new republic states.

khalids:


My issue now is those in power also include people of all these regions and if we go our separate ways....they most likely will still be in charge
How then will this same people now be able to give us good governance....when they don't really care about us

omaar12:
One thing with breaking into smaller unit and if I may add same ethnic group oriented country is that No one will complain of witch hunting of one region toward another.
For example u see how in Nigeria where corrupt politician tend to go scout free after embezzling it state coffers the ( ministers and senator) will be defend and hidden away from the law by those from the same region.
but in an ethnical based country take the igbos for example they have 5state and some part of delta and rivers states let just say 6 in total, it won't be 6 rather they will be broken down into smaller units. if anyone is found wanting on the basis of corruption the power to lobby a lot of people will be reduced even for a sitting president, not to talk about a provincial governor it vice and the provincial representative in the National assembly.

erico2k2:

When you.challenge people you have to put them into perspective . You call people like me lazy . Let me.ask you what have you in person dome to improve human life in any capacity ? Look at me who is very lazy and you who is not lazy .U manage to get on a lazy bus to a lazy land and do a job people are too lazy to do.main while the likes of you generalise people of my extract as lazy and do not want to work . Go to Lagos . Don't you have same people who smoke all day and rob at night ? All over the world there are bound to B people who can't be bothered . Even here in the UK we have English men and women who can't be bothered to work . So that mean the English are Lazy going by your own self definition of LAZY ?

Efewestern:


Tell FG to give the people what belongs to them, our land are been destroyed daily.

legislatively:
no one bombed pipelines in ogoni and ilaje, the federal government in conjunction with the oil companies refused to do clean-up.
The case is the same in most part of nigerdelta

Remimadrid:
is that all you can come up with?, are the youth the ones causing the spillage?

No, but it is the leaders that are giving the youths the weapon to destroy their own land by themselves, while blaming the federal government for the cause of their actions

fratermathy:
Oil Spillage has become the sad reality of the Delta today. From the Western end of Ondo to the Eastern end of Akwa Ibom, oil spillage is a recurrent decimal.

In itself, oil spillage is not the problem because it can be cleaned and it is not unique to Nigeria. The problem, however, is the government's lack of interest in the plight of the poor fishermen and riverine dwellers of the Delta who have to face the reality of black oil on their land and waters. The oil companies pay little to no interest to these spills and even when monies are disbursed for cleanup, they end up on the stomach of the so-called Niger Delta leaders.

What about the militants that claim to fight for the rights of the people by blowing up pipes (and by extension causing more spillages)? Many of them have been bought off by the FG. The amount of money the FG spends to feed the ex-militants in a month is enough to clean up a large section of the oil spills in Urhobo/Isokoland. What are the militants doing about it now that their purses are full?

The blame for these spills goes to each and every one of us. To the government, for its negligence and blatant disregard for the welfare of its citizens who have to suffer the bitter taste of black crude, spilt over their water and land. To the Niger Delta leaders who eat the little money that may be used to satiate the plights of the jobless fishermen, farmers, and riverine dwellers who have nowhere to go. To the militants and agitators who use a genuine cause to enrich themselves at the detriment of the people they swore to fight for. To the average Nigerian who turns away from sordid images such as the ones on this thread; who rather pretends not to know what their fellow citizens are facing every day.

The Niger Delta is a mistreated and wealthy bride of Nigeria. She may not know her true worth now or have good leaders and agitators, but a day will come when the bride shall say enough is enough. When that day comes, Nigeria will stand still and see the evil its leaders and the oil companies have done against a once arable and ecologically rich region. No one, not even our closest neighbours, can help us. We alone have to break free of the chains we have allowed ourselves to be entrapped in.