Unfortunately this is a fight the Niger Delta Can't win Because 95% of the people talk but dont act especially our leaders, thats why I duff my Hat for the Ijaw boys (not Ijaw leaders).

If Bini, Urhobo, Isoko, Igbo, Efik, Ibibio, Anang, Itsekiri, Eshan, Ogoni, etc support our Ijaw brothers the Fed Govt has no choice but to negotiate in fairness with the region.[/b]Well I guess the Ijaw and the non-Ijaw groups in the Niger Delta have themselves to blame for any lack of progress in getting their God given right.

jamace:



Are you saying the govt is not fair to the region? Please, expatiate on the form of negotiation necessary to show fairness to the region.

SegzyJoe:

@post

Until Nigerians decides to resist evil under whatever name it is being called whether militancy or armed robber, the people that harbours such criminal elements in their community will continue to suffer collateral damage in the hands of law enforcement agents and the armed forces. If you know a militant hide-out or camps where evil is being perpetrated and the entire community dey sidon look as if nothing happened, then it is to their peril. There is no government that will open its eyes and allowed criminal elements to wrestle power away from the state. It is the responsibility of every community to ensure that they are not at cross purposes with government efforts at stamping out militancy and criminal activities of a few idiots.

koastar:

Before the raid, an ultimatum was given to the civilians living in the creeks to leave. It was after that the raid started.

koastar:

Before the raid, an ultimatum was given to the civilians living in the creeks to leave. It was after that the raid started.

lwise :
WE HAVE MANY UNPATRIOTIC NIGERIANS ON THIS FORUM

CLICK ON THE LINK OF THE ARTICLE IN QUESTION,
THAT NEWS IS DATED DEC 2008,
THAT MEANS THE ADMIN,THE MODERATORS ARE NOT DOING THIER JOBS
B4 U MAKE A TOPIC APPEARS ON THE HOME PAGE,IT IS BETTER TO INVESTIGATE,
I GUESS THATS THE JOB OF A MODERATOR.

IF YOU CLICK ON THE LINK YOU WILL FIND THIS AT THE TOP

LAGOS, Nigeria, Dec. 3, 2008
Rights Group: Nigerian Military Raid Kills 150
National Troops Hunting Rebel Leader Have Killed Dozens of Civilians in 3 Day Raid, says Human Rights Group

SEUN,I WANT YOU TO BAN THE GUY THAT POSTED THE ARTICLE AND CHANGE THE MODERATORS.
IM WAITING!!!

Omenani :
If anyone read the source, they would have seen that it was dated 2008.

An activist who visited Ayakoromo on Friday accompanied by the military has said at least nine people were reported killed and dozens of houses were damaged, including some that were burnt.

Miabiye Kuromiema, president of the Ijaw Youth Council, a rights group in the Niger Delta, said he was seeking to confirm reports of more deaths and that the victims included innocent civilians.

Antigha has said troops in boats returned fire when gang members who had taken refuge in the community shot at them.

He said only small arms fire was used in the raids, with aircraft employed for surveillance, denying claims that heavier weapons were employed.

Antigha blamed the burnt houses on gunfire that he said would have ignited canisters of fuel stored there for generators or boat engines.

The fire would have spread because the fire service was not around to extinguish it, according to Antigha.

The raids targeted John Togo, who authorities say is a leader of a criminal gang responsible for piracy, robberies and rape.

An earlier military statement said the task force facilitated Kuromiema's visit as a show of good faith, which the rights leader confirmed.

Kuromiema said a camp appearing to belong to Togo -- he saw the initials JT written on the outside -- was located "a couple of thousands of metres" away from the community and had been taken over by the military.

There was a major military presence throughout the area, he said.

Resurgent unrest in the Niger Delta risks undermining the credibility of President Goodluck Jonathan in the run-up to elections next April and his administration is keen to show he has a grip on criminality there.

He is the first Ijaw head of state and brokered an amnesty with militants last August, which saw thousands of gunmen lay down their weapons and brought more than a year without significant attacks on the oil industry.

Some activists said scores of civilians died in last week's military offensive, which lasted several days, but the Ijaw Youth Council civil rights group, which inspected Ayakoromo after the raids, said nine civilians had died.

The Red Cross said its aid workers had seen about 30 civilians evacuated to a military barracks and others sheltering in primary schools at Ayakoromo. Hundreds of displaced women, in need of food and water after days in the creeks, arrived at the compound of a prominent Ijaw leader in the nearby town of Warri.

igbo boy:

una just dey talk wetin una no know, who tell u say that the civillians live in the creek? They live in their villages o, na the freedom fighters dey operate from the creek, Highest the civilians might pass the creek in their daily commute but they dont live there EINSTEIN

Ikomi:

An ultimatum was given to them to leave and go where? Your house I believe.

koastar:

So, you don't know your brothers live around the creeks? You need to visit some of the places to comfirm how deterioted live is in the creek. Because we live in the city does not mean some people do not live on water in the creeks. What I said was true that an ultimatum was given to the civilians staying around the creeks to vacate the place in order not to kill innocent people.

igbo boy:

Guy u just dey for city dey yan OP,